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...thriller, not far from the Saw series in its devoutly clinical depiction of distressed bodies. (See the eyeball on the floor! Gasp as plump rats snack on a dead Cardinal's face!) For adults who are or were Catholic, the movie is a backstage story of Vatican politicking, à la Monsignor and The Godfather Part III; it paints the College of Cardinals as possibly the only ruling body older and more removed from mundane realities than the U.S. Supreme Court. For conspiracy buffs, there's the notion that the Holy Fratricide might be an inside job, which recalls the double...
...referring to is, of course, swine flu. According to the World Health Organization, the number of people infected worldwide stands, as of Monday morning, at 4,694, of which 95 cases have occurred in Spain. And some evidence seems to point to a factory pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico, as a possible source for the virus. But among the scientists, producers, regulators and distributors who had gathered in Aracena, just down the road from Jabugo, to network and listen to scientists discussing the latest innovations in pig breeding and ham raising, no one was willing to admit concern about...
...which might give them some immunity. Or it may be that young people simply encountered H1N1 more often in the early days of the outbreak. The only thing that's clear is that young people are contracting it and they are getting sick. In the small Mexican town of La Gloria, where the virus appears to have originated in early February, H1N1 infected over 61% of the under-15-year-olds in the community. That's worrying because the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed up to 50 million people, was particularly virulent in the young...
...Severgnini, a columnist for Corriere della Sera, is the author of La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
...Explaining her support for Sotomayor, La Raza president Janet Murguia explained, “There are high expectations because of the turnout we saw in the Latino community [in the 2008 election]. I think [picking a Hispanic] would go a long way to helping the Latino community feel they were recognized in terms of that support...