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Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington declared it the "largest funeral in the history of the world," as outside the multitudes watched, on immense TV screens, the movement of the plain cypress coffin, a fitting last gesture by a Pope who understood so well how much images matter. Priests poured into the crowds to administer Communion, and over their heads, the flags sailed and swooped. Banners proclaimed SANTO SUBITO, Sainthood Now, and already reports were spreading of miraculous healings by the Pope last week. "The Cardinals have seen this outpouring, and it adds to the weight of their responsibility. It says...
...sure, though, the most interesting parts of the production were the gendered costumes and props. The men wore colorful and flamboyant tunics while the women and “eunuchs” (feminized men) wore plain monochrome dresses or academic robes, thematically highlighting their inferior status as background characters...
...sure, though, the most interesting parts of the production were the gendered costumes and props. The men wore colorful and flamboyant tunics while the women and “eunuchs” (feminized men) wore plain monochrome dresses or academic robes, thematically highlighting their inferior status as background characters...
...much as one might hope that Sino-Indian meetings were something like a graduate seminar on development economics, it's plain that the two nations could one day end up as rivals. After all, they have been before: in 1962, China humiliated India in a border war, and that still rankles. Sun Shihai, a specialist on Sino-Indian relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, notes that although there has been a general rapprochement between New Delhi and Beijing since the 1980s, questions over the border continue to be an irritant. And in the future, the two nations' rapacious...
Walk into a Sephora cosmetics store anywhere, and you'll be bombarded with slickly packaged products promising to make you look radiant, smell good and feel gorgeous. Yet almost hidden among those glamorous potions is a plain medicinal box--labeled with the unsexy pitch INTENSIVE CONCENTRATE FOR EXISTING STRETCH MARKS (STRIAE DISTENSAE)--that just happens to be one of the chain's Top 10--selling items. No, stretch marks haven't suddenly become big business. But thanks in part to aggressive ads that proclaim it "Better than Botox?," the scientific-sounding StriVectin-SD has become the hottest thing...