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...saint. The only real question is when that sainthood will be made official. The date of birth, of course, we already know to be May 18, 1920, when Karol Wojtyla was born in a humble two-story home in the town of Wadowice, in the rolling countryside of southern Poland. He died 85 years later in Rome as the most widely beloved - and arguably most influential - pope of the past millennium. But exactly when the Catholic Church will officially recognize Pope John Paul II as a saint is a question only the Lord (and Vatican bureaucrats) can answer...
...land in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales is Southern California in the year 2008. The U.S. is under a kind of martial law, because, the narrator says, "After the nuclear attacks on Texas, things got real complicated." The government is trying to harness a hydrokinetic energy called "fluid karma." The country's rebels include prostitutes, arms dealers and various flaky types...
George W. Bush's insistence on a new guest-worker program as part of any immigration reform has infuriated many conservatives, but it is also sounding alarm bells among some immigrant-rights advocates. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) argues that many guest workers already in the U.S. are being cruelly exploited--sometimes in government jobs--and fears that any expansion will lead to more instances of what Mary Bauer, an SPLC lawyer, calls "indentured servitude...
Early in their careers, the Dixie Chicks did, and they were beloved for it. Maguire and Robison started the group in their teens (Maguire was then at Southern Methodist University; Robison never finished an application to the Air Force Academy) with two singers in their 30s before eventually replacing them in 1995 with Maines, a Berklee College of Music dropout who, at the time, was attending her third college in three years. After a lot of dues paying, the band took over the country charts. Maines has an immensely powerful voice, but she's also capable of barometric emotional adjustments...
...spared last time--even without the embankments breaking. Another man-made disaster, like the levee breaches after Katrina, could turn New Orleans into a "Cajun Atlantis," Van Heerden fears, crippling the coastal economy along with it. "The uneasiness is not just in New Orleans. It's right across the southern part of the state," he says...