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LONGTIME North Shore resi-
_dent Rudy Lawrence has been
active with local seniors’ orga-
nizations since 1986. Among
his volunteer positions: first
_. vice-president of Silver
_ Harbour and president of the
Council of Senior Citizens’
Organizations of B.C.

. (London),

AMONG the issues toiling
the Roman Catholigs’ Italian
Bishops Conterence in Turin
in September was the pending
recommendation that all
cxorcisms be conducted) in
Latin rather than in focal lan
guages, and ano important
subissue. according toa
report from) The ludspendent
was hew Satan
ought therefore to be
addressed: by the formal ver-
sion of the Latin pronoun
“you™ (*rei7) or the more
intimate version (“tu”).
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Latest Exorcism

Developments: Re-release of

the 1973 movie The Exorcist
in September is but one event

fuelling a recent flurry of

Satan-dispatching attempts.
The Catholic Archdiocese

of Chicago .revealed in

September 2000 that it had,

for the first time, appointed a
full-time. exorcist. And) the

Vatican revealed in September
that Pope John Paul TH had
failed in his own exorcism of a

19-year-old woman after. the

church's chief exorcist’ had
also failed.

And in a quly investigative
piece, the ‘New York Posr
reported that the SI billion

annual donations worldwide

to the Universal Church of

the Kingdom of God (Brazil:
based, but with 15.000 mem-
bers in the United States) are
made largely under the
church created fear that such
giing is the only wavs to
obtain exvorcisms.
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An August British
Broadcasting Corp. decu-
mentary, Brain Srery, teatured
a oman whose cranial Jobes
were surgically severed in
order to treat epilepsy and
who now is able ta do what he
calts the “party trick” of draw-

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Sympathy with the devil

ing different designs, with
cach hand, at the same time.
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Japan's Mizuno Corp. has
developed a svnthetic material
for ainen’s underpants that
sould keep the covered area
one Celsius degree cooler
than cotton underwear and
theretore hefptal, tor exam-
ple. to skiers Cand, say doe-
tors, to those — desiring
increased sperm production),
according to an August New
Sciemist’ report. However,
Canadian polvester-mesh
underwear manufacturer
Stanfield’s Lad. disputed

Mizuno’s claim of superiority:
said a spokesman, “We just
havent gotup the puts to
measure the temperature of
someone's croteh vet.”
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Customs Agent
Adventures: Cocaine “mule”
Jose Antonio Campos-Cloute
was arrested atthe
Melbourne, Australia, airport,
in September after a momen-
tary lapses as he was filling out
the Customs form, he absent-
mindedly checked the “yes”
box on whether he was carry:
ing illicit substances, and that
led to a search.

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