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Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until "our investigation" (whatever that consisted of).
This from Reuters: "Druids danced, Muslims prayed, Hindus bathed, and Europeans stopped work and took to the streets as an eerie twilight followed by darkness covered their capitals at about noon."
I wondered if there was anything else I might pray for, and I thought I would like to have some money, so I prayed that I would make a lot of money, and then I started to think how I would make it, and thinking of money reminded me of the count, and I started wondering about where he was, and regretting I hadn't seen him since that night in Montmartre, and about something funny Brett told me about him.
When I hear them talk about how they'll never own their own home, I tell them there's hope for us, that I'm living proof and everything I've prayed on every night has been answered."
The Times's "Arts & Leisure" section caricatures the carnival-like scene: Protesting Catholics prayed and handed out vomit bags.