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Officially the rite is called Recognition. On April 4, a delegation of bishops and monsignors in full regalia arrived at Rome's Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls. They descended to the 6th century cathedral's crypt and were led to a white stone tomb. A casket was opened for them. At this point, wrote Monsignor Carlo Liberati of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, "there was a moment of profound and intense commotion." The body within, that of 19th century Pope Pius IX, was "almost perfectly conserved." Pius, known universally in Rome as Pio Nono...
MATRICULATING. PRINCE WILLIAM, 18, heir to the heir to the British throne and towheaded teen pinup; to Scotland's St. Andrews University; to study art history after taking this year off to work and travel the world...
Nothing revives a reputation quite like being sainted. Last week the Russian Orthodox Church announced that Nicholas II--Russia's last Czar and a man not exactly known for his good deeds--would be canonized. So how does he stack up against that other St. Nick...
...predictable pattern. They don't have Moby-Dick's baleful metaphysics, but sometimes fishermen work up a sort of Ahab feeling about them. They are giants, as freshwater fish go. The great muskie fisherman Len Hartman caught one weighing 67 pounds, 15 ounces in 1961 in the St. Laurence River, and the record is heavier still...
...very cool guy, very easy and humble. He was very in the moment. We hit it off very well." Before meeting up with Woods in New Orleans, Goodgame, who wrote the story on Tiger's risky overhaul of his swing, followed the golfer during his practice rounds at St. Andrews before the British Open, listening to him and his coach and caddy discussing the types of shots he should hit on different holes in different conditions. Says Goodgame, who played golf for Oxford University: "I've seen good players rework their swings and never recover. What Tiger did took guts...