Pope John Paul II has managed to squeeze
into his tight schedule
for 2000 a number of social engagements
aimed at showing the sympathy
of the Head of the Catholic church for the poverty-stricken (those
on the rocks)(those without
two pennies to rub together)...
Firstly, he has requested
the pleasure of the company of two hundred dropouts on June
15th so he can dine with them in The Vatican and thus be able to
"share their miserable lifestyle". Then, he is going to
Regina Coeli's Rome prison to pay
a visit to the convicts there, in order to mark their jubilee
celebrations.
It is still unknown, though, whether the
Pope will beg for clemency from the Italian government for Ali Agca,
who pleaded guilty and was imprisoned 19 years ago for shooting
him.
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37-year-old
Swiss journalist, Tom Kummer, is up
to his neck in scandal for making
up fake interviews with famous
public people such as Sharon Stone, Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger
among others. The number of
fake articles and columns published in SD Magazin (the supplement
of the prestigious German newspaper Sýddeutsche Zeitung
) amounts to about thirty.
The striking
thing about Kummer was the wry
sense of humour he displayed in his writings. It
was just tough luck that some of his wittiest
lines were discovered to
come straight from Andy Warhol's "The Philosophy".
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