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Philip Neri was literally bighearted. People often said that they could hear his heart hammering from far off, and his doctors noticed a swelling in his chest that they took to be a tumor. But after his death, an autopsy showed that his heart was so enlarged that it had sprung two of his ribs out of position. Few who knew him doubted his sainthood. Two months after he died, the canonization process began with 194 witnesses, and less than 27 years later, Pope Gregory XV proclaimed him St. Philip Neri. "He owed his pre-eminence," writes Author Jouhandeau...
...country and the people." The prince is kingpin of the rich southern Laotian valleys, famed for leading a heroic resistance against the Japanese in 1945 and admired by local tribesmen both for his reputed magic powers (he wears a lukelod, or amulet, that is said to make his chest itch when danger approaches) and his gargantuan drinking and partying...
...black bands for police-violence victims turned out to demonstrate. They found cops waiting, shouted, "Killers!" Police opened fire. A 19-year-old university law student and two other demonstrators fell dying. That night the knifed corpse of a cop was found with the word Revenge painted across the chest...
When the two men lined up in the chilly night, their sweat-soaked bodies reflected light from the flaring Olympic torch. Right from the start, Johnson took his position behind Yang. At the end of the third lap, Yang suddenly let his head loll down to his chest. "Come on, Ray!" yelled U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Pete Newell in a voice that carried to the track. "Come on, boy. He's fading." As though he had been slapped, Yang snapped his head up and increased the pace. Johnson painfully lengthened his stride...
...Johnson seems to have been molded especially for the decathlon. He has the slim, knobby-kneed legs of a sprinter. But above his trim, 35-in. waist, he is built like a weight man, with a torso that mushrooms to a 46-in. chest, and shoulders that are thick with slabs of muscle...