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...Improbably effusive descriptions mount up, from the “wonderful mischief” of Pope John Paul II to the “superwomen” who were 1990s supermodels....
...In a speech last month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he quoted Pope John Paul II; campaign ads include images of the former vice-president with the current pope, Francis, who has been lauded by progressives...
...Among the books piled haphazardly — or perhaps artfully — behind his desk are works by the late Socialist president François Mitterrand and Pope Francis, the letters exchanged by Flaubert and Turgenev, and...
...We don’t yet know whether Mr Trump claims to be infallible on any matters, but on this issue he appears to be claiming greater powers than the pope. Bruce Couchman Ottawa, ON, Canada...
...President trumps pope in pardoning himself — Letter from Bruce Couchman: Some commentators have noted that President Donald Trump’s claim to the right of self-pardon is analogous to the rights claimed by...
...Letters in response to this article: Trump reign at risk with allusion to divine right / From Mark Bell, Atlanta, GA, US President trumps pope in pardoning himself / From Bruce Couchman, Ottawa, ON, Canada...
...Lest it be accused of liberal sentimentality, the ad comes with a title worthy of a Bruce Willis action movie: “Born the Hard Way”....
...Bruce Springsteen, who cancelled a performance in North Carolina over a state law dictating which bathrooms transgender people may use....
...But it also contains a kernel of constitutional monarchism: the nobles told the Pope that they would get rid of Bruce if he failed to live up to their standards....
...“There are more houses than there are buyers, so if buyers are prepared to shop around and negotiate hard they will get a good deal,” says Gemma Bruce of Casa & Country....
...“The Pope was the UN of his day,” my whispering guide says....
...In 1320, six years after Robert the Bruce led Scots to victory against England in the Battle of Bannockburn, his nobles issued the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter to Pope John XXII....
...Robert the Bruce may have been the victor of Bannockburn, destroying the English forces of Edward II; but he was also lord of the manor in Tottenham and his grandfather, the first Robert Bruce of Annandale...
...It’s the traditional place where Robert the Bruce planted his standard.”...
...“Oh,” she says, “Bruce was off doing his own thing....
...Responsibility for the child abuse scandal, Gibney contests, goes all the way to the Vatican and, yes, the outgoing Pope....
...It also dovetails with his astute consideration of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who demanded that his sculpture of a meteorite-struck Pope should be displayed only in a museum....
...So the centres of Florence, Rome and Milan are holding up quite well,” says Gemma Bruce of estate agency Casa & Country....
...In “The Pope Song”, a relentless stream of expletives describes Minchin’s view of the pontiff in a berserk pub sing-a-long....
...Not to be outdone, Salisbury Cathedral has embarked on a series of installations, none more spectacular than the current work by Bruce Munro....
...More importantly, he grandly claimed that, with the US version of TW3 (1964), “the seeds of satire had been sown” – rubbing out Tom Lehrer, Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, whose stand-up acts in the 1950s rejuvenated...
...Recent demands have included a pair of the red shoes worn by the Pope and backstage passes to a Beyoncé concert....
...Dogs, the director’s own, are the heroes, heroines and addressees of Bruce Weber’s A Letter to True....
...Other deals included Mitchells & Butlers selling 120 pubs to Trust Inns; Brakspears selling to its main shareholder JT Davies; Enterprise Inns disposing of its Scottish estate of 137 pubs; Eldridge Pope...
...I say I imagine he would covet a Bacon Pope painting. “Too expensive. It’s out of my league. But you never know.”...
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