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Ryan Tentler ran for 57-yard fourth quarter touchdown for Stetson (2-6, 1-5) that cut its deficit to 34-16. But that was as close as the Hatters got, as San Diego’s Matthew Cecil ran 45 yards for a touchdown just 14 seconds later.
Tentler finished with 105 yards rushing for Stetson, which has lost six of seven after a week one win.
It start with an AMBER alert for an eight-year-old boy and ends with child with glowing eyes causing massive disturbances: Judging by the first trailer for the star-studded sci-fi throwback Midnight Special, we may have a candidate for next year’s best old-school Spielberg-esque film not made by the man himself.
A mysterious chase movie that filmaker Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) has likened to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the movie tells the story of a man (Michael Shannon) and his uniquely gifted eight-year-old kid, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher). The details of the youngster’s abilities are a mystery, but the trailer makes it perfectly clear that things tend to blow up whenever he takes a pair of swimming goggles off. Forced to protect his son from government agents who think he’s a weapon — and religious extremists who think he’s their savior — the boy and his dad go on the run in search of safety.
Midnight Special is scheduled to open on March 18, 2016. The film also stars Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Adam Driver, and Sam Shepard.
South Carolina's new "kingmaker" is about to get a lot more popular among GOP presidential candidates.
With the GOP presidential contest intensifying, Tim Scott is about to get a lot more knocks on his door.
South Carolina is poised to play a major role in the 2016 campaign, and Scott plans to walk each of the Republican hopefuls through his state and pick their brains in a series of town-hall events that he's organizing for later this year. Unlike in 2012, when Scott held smaller town hall events with the candidates, this year he may actually endorse, offering up a prize no serious presidential contender could scoff at.
The South Carolina primary could provide an opportunity for lower-tier candidates to make their mark after contests in Iowa and New Hampshire—or for leading contenders to begin sewing up the nomination. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to play well in New Hampshire's primary, while the Iowa caucuses are leaning in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's favor (a caveat: it's April 2015), giving a quartet of senators and other candidates the chance to steal headlines of their own in the Palmetto State.
Scott's predecessor in the Senate, Jim DeMint, became known as the "kingmaker" for his influential role in picking conservative candidates for Senate contests. Now Scott is in position to play the same role in the presidential race.
The first-term senator is by far the most popular politician in South Carolina, and one of the most popular in the country. A March Winthrop University poll showed Scott with a stunning 54 percent approval rating from his fellow South Carolinians. Among Republicans, a full 71 percent approve of the job he's doing in the Senate.
Those approval ratings are far higher than for any of the presidential primary contenders, and support from Scott could help broaden the voter base for any of them. Scott is well-liked among the business community as well as fiscal conservatives and among evangelical Christians; a trifecta of supporters for a fledgling presidential campaign. He is well-liked among conservative groups and the establishment. And as the party's only African American in the Senate, Scott represents a core constituency that the GOP is focused on this cycle.
In a phone interview from New Hampshire, where he is testing the waters on a presidential campaign of his own this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham praised Scott as an incredibly smart, humble man; a man of faith whose popularity in the state has not surprised his senior senator. "Tim in general is one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life in politics," Graham said. "Everybody likes Tim."
During the Senate's late-night budget vote-a-rama last month, Graham said he and fellow Republicans were sitting around chatting and watching basketball at around 11 p.m. when he noticed Scott off in a corner and asked what he was doing. " 'Doing my Bible study'—he said it very sheepishly. That's just him. He's unpretentious," Graham said.
Graham said that he and Scott have discussed the possibility of the senior senator's presidential campaign, but emphasized that he has not made a decision yet—and neither has Scott. "He's been very encouraging, thinks I have a lot to offer on national security," Graham said. "He says I'll make the state proud."
A Scott spokesman said that the senator has had very general conversations with a number of potential presidential candidates, including Graham, but emphasized that he will wait until after he has had an opportunity to commune with each of them before making a decision about an endorsement.
Scott is planning several town hall meetings with individual candidates some time in the late summer or early fall that will occur all over the state. The idea is that Scott and the candidate will take questions from attendees, and Scott and his constituents will have an opportunity to discuss issues of importance to South Carolina with a would-be president ahead of the primary. Rep. Trey Gowdy plans to join them at a few events in the Upstate as well.
One candidate who could benefit greatly from a Scott endorsement is Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky Republican, who announced that he was running just this week, is honing in on South Carolina as a major target in his presidential campaign and already has earned the backing of former governor and current Rep. Mark Sanford. And Scott could help Paul in his quest to improve the party's share of the African American vote nationally.
Paul, who was an avid supporter of Scott's appointment to the Senate in 2013, has not yet gotten in touch with the South Carolina senator about his presidential ambitions, the Scott spokesman said, despite a planned fundraiser and a separate campaign appearance in Charleston on Wednesday and Thursday.
But Scott's endorsement will be highly sought-after. His conservative bona fides could aid candidates such as Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who are viewed as more moderate, while his business acumen could offer establishment cover to someone like Paul or Ben Carson.
"His popularity is just broad and wide, among evangelical Christians, among Chamber of Commerce types. He has a disposition that it's just hard not to like Tim Scott. He's got a lot of talent," Graham said. "He's got a quiet passion."
When you rent a car in India, the car comes with a driver, partly because their wages -- as low as $2-3 a day -- are negligible compared to the cost of the rental. I traveled a lot within India, so I met a lot of drivers. We rarely had a fluent language in common, but through a patchwork of different languages, we'd manage. Some trips were 10-hour journeys over bumpy rural roads [photo at right], and I learned a lot about their lives.
One thing that took a while for me to get used to was having to make the drivers wait at a destination while I worked. If I had a long day of meetings, they would wait the 12 hours in the parking lot. If I had a late-evening event, they would wait into the wee hours. Some drivers wouldn't go eat meals while waiting unless I explicitly mentioned they could. Most were faithful servants to the point of embarrassment.
But as I got used to it, I started wondering what they did while waiting. Some chatted with other drivers. Some listened to the radio. A few read the newspaper. Most drivers, though, would tilt back the driver's seat and sleep. A lot.
I found myself thinking, there must be a way to spend that time more productively. I imagined I would study English if I were them. Good English can double a driver's income and open doors to other jobs.
Then, as I thought about productive use of time, I found myself thinking maybe they were lazy.
Talk of virtue makes different people uncomfortable for different reasons. Liberals worry about blame poured on victims. Libertarians sense paternalistic assaults on personal freedoms. Hard-nosed policy-makers recoil from mushy intangibles that defy human nature. Even social conservatives, who often hail virtue, dislike preachyness and moral self-righteousness.
These concerns are valid. Polite people avoid virtue in conversation even more than religion and politics. But if virtue is the ultimate controllable cause of our own and others' well-being as I believe it is, avoiding the subject dooms us to superficial or incomplete solutions to problems.
The discomfort has to be addressed head on, and I'll start with the hazards of "blaming the victim."
The issue comes up in the United States: High unemployment incites accusations of insufficient diligence and counteraccusations of blaming the victim. Deep in the American psyche lies the belief that if virtues lead to good consequences, then anyone who isn't successful must not be virtuous.
Success, though, is obviously a function of both virtue and luck. Virtue alone isn't sufficient for material success (e.g., hard-working people laid off in the recession), and people with little virtue can succeed wildly (Charlie Sheen, anyone?). Luck matters -- luck of the parents you were born to, luck of talent you inherited, luck of the people you happen to know, and often, just plain vanilla luck. Virtue's link to success is partial and probabilistic, never an absolute guarantee.
Still, even if life outcomes were only 1% up to you and as much as 99% up to luck, it helps to believe that it's all you for three reasons: First, you're the part of the world that you have the most control over. Second, it's discouraging to think that it's mostly luck. And third, even 1% every day accumulates like compound interest. That's why Benjamin Franklin propagated the idea that "God helps those that help themselves." That's why we love rags-to-respectability Horatio Alger stories. That's why we blithely tell our children, "You can achieve anything, if you just work hard enough!"
But though the white lie of the self-made person is great motivation, accepting it as fact leads to both blaming the victims in the unemployment line and encouraging oversized self-esteem on Wall Street. This gap between what motivates us and what explains us is the crux. Hobgoblins lurk in the attempt to reconcile.
Conservatives accept the self-made person, blame victims, lionize the superrich, and want to shrink government. This view is consistent. It's also oversimplified, but conservatives have committed to it and gone far.
Liberals deny the self-made person (at least in public) and invoke social context. This view is also consistent and oversimplified, but liberals waver on it because it violates their own intuitions. Liberals, for instance, are no different from conservatives in wanting to instill individual virtues in their children.
The snag is in unquestioning assignment of moral value to individual virtues. We praise people for their virtues and condemn them for their lack of virtues, as if they deserved all of the credit or all of the blame. But research shows that virtues like self-control and compassion depend not just on individual choices, but also on genes, childhood nutrition, and upbringing, all variables over which individuals have little control. Virtues themselves are part luck and social context.
For liberals, this doesn't solve the rhetorical challenge, but it allows them to accept the importance of virtues without blaming any victims. It also permits a shift in dialogue, from debating whether individuals or society matter more, to debating which virtues (both individual and societal) are important and how they can best be nurtured.
Once in a while, though, a driver is diligent, self-confident, and focused, and does remarkably well. One of them was Narasimha, a taxi driver I met through a dial-up cab service, and whom I came to rely on for trips to the Bangalore airport [photo at left]. Unlike other drivers, Narasimha showed up 10 minutes ahead of time, and he drove safely and steadily. Through bits of English, Hindi, and Kannada, I learned that he came from a village a couple of hours outside of the city. His family farmed, but he had bigger dreams. At the time, he paid a flat fee per day to rent a car from a man who owned a fleet of cabs, but Narasimha wanted to own his own car, and he told me that he was close to saving enough money. As we approached the airport terminal, he handed me a business card and asked me to call him whenever I needed a ride. By calling him directly, I'd dispense with the middleman.
And so I did. I sometimes had flights leaving at 2 a.m. in the morning, but he never once turned me down. If he couldn't come himself, he'd set me up with one of his driver friends. None of them though, were as prompt, safe, or reliable as Narasimha.
One day, Narasimha arrived in a shiny white Ford Icon. I happened to be the first passenger in his new car, and he beamed when I congratulated him. He had purchased the car on a loan, and it meant that he was finally his own master.
I asked him how he managed it all, and here's what I could gather: Narasimha had an uncle who invited him to Bangalore, got him into the taxi business, coached him as a driver, and helped him procure the loan. I couldn't understand everything he said, but by his tone, it was clear he was deeply grateful to his mentor. As hard and as smart as he worked, Narasimha had yet another virtue that helps counter "blaming the victim": humility.
Kentaro Toyama is working on a book tentatively titled A Different Kind of Growth: Wisdom in Global Development. Follow him on Twitter.
This week, Resonance Records will release three concert recordings of the jazz guitarist Grant Green that had been buried in archives for more than forty years.
There’s a special thrill of liberation in the live recordings of jazz that few studio recordings can match. Resonance Records will gratify a long-standing dream of mine with the release, on May 25th, of three concert recordings of the guitarist Grant Green that had been buried in archives for more than forty years. The first two are on the two-disk set “Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes (1969-1970),” and come from France’s audiovisual archive; the third, “Slick!—Live at Oil Can Harry’s,” was recorded in Vancouver, in 1975, by a Canadian radio station; and both albums offer revelatory delights.
Green (who was born in 1935 and died in 1979) recorded copiously from 1961 to 1971, mostly on the Blue Note label, both as a leader and as a sideman, and his musical range was wide. He said that he learned to play guitar by listening to and playing along with the records of the pioneering bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, and, though Green often played blues-based music, accompanied by an electric-organist, he was most celebrated for his forward-reaching performances alongside leading post-bop modernists of the day (such as Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Joe Henderson). He’s the most original jazz guitarist of his time, along with Wes Montgomery, whose sound was more distinctive and who projected a clearer musical personality. Green’s work, whatever the context, maintained an air of abstraction and concentration that was more searching. If Montgomery’s solos are filled with joyous affirmations, Green’s improvisations are filled with question marks that often yield to bursts of insistent fervor.
The two new Green releases are different; they offer three performances that are thrilling in themselves, and that also add a major historical dimension to Green’s career, proving that his shift—from what the organist Clarence Palmer, interviewed in the “Funk in France” liner notes, calls “heavy bebop jazz” to “rock and roll”—nonetheless offered both a remarkable continuity and a noteworthy advance in the guitarist’s own art. The two new Green albums reveal nothing less than an opening-out of Green’s art at a time when earlier commercial releases suggest that he had been backing off.
The first session, recorded in 1969 with an audience at a Parisian radio studio, is “heavy bebop jazz” with a twist. Green, accompanied by Larry Ridley, on acoustic bass, and Don Lamond, on drums, opens with a propulsively funky number, James Brown’s “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing,” but for the rest of the concert the trio explores the modern-jazz songbook, including two compositions by Sonny Rollins, “Oleo” (which Green had recorded in 1962) and “Sonnymoon for Two” (which he had recorded in 1960). Green’s expansive solos float boldly and fly forcefully above the harmonic intricacies before breaking into starkly rhythmic virtual shouts. Despite his rapid-fire fluidity, Green seems to use his guitar also like a percussion instrument, doing so slyly in his sinuous musical phrases, brazenly at dramatic crescendi. That percussive element comes to the fore in his rock-based recordings of the seventies, but, in these albums, it remains in balance with his long-lined improvisations.
The four long tracks from 1970 on “Funk in France,” from Antibes, come from two days of concerts, and there’s a big difference between them. On the two numbers from July 18th, Green sounds tentative and constrained, feeling his way into the electric groove. Then, on July 20th, he unleashes waves and torrents of sharply honed notes, inspired by the skittering drumming of Billy Wilson and the allusive interjections of the organist Palmer. The instrumentation here resembles that of many of Green’s earlier classics, but more than the mood is different: the band generates a brash turbulence that undergirds its jittery frenzies with firm rhythmic landmarks that Green thrillingly speeds past until he, as thrillingly, stops short and counts them off before speeding ahead again. The saxophone solos of Claude Bartee offer more heat and energy than they do musical light, but they certainly don’t detract from the concert’s freewheeling and rambunctious spirit.
In 1975, at Oil Can Harry’s, in Vancouver, Green—joined by Emmanuel Riggins, playing electric piano; Ronnie Ware, on bass; Greg (Vibrations) Williams, playing drums; and the percussionist Gerald Izzard—starts with a nod to one of his personal classics, Charlie Parker’s “Now’s the Time,” which darts and lurches through the changes with jagged intensity. He revisits Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa-nova tune “How Insensitive (Insensatez).” That tune is also part of the 1969 Paris program, where Green’s exhilarating filigreed solo bounces along with the jaunty rhythms; in Vancouver, Green bounces off them, urged onward by Riggins’s assertively florid interjections, with results that are less subtle but far more challenging, replacing a limpid musical stream with a churning musical magma. The thick-textured heat is even more intense in the concert’s final number, a medley of funk and fusion tunes (including the Ohio Players’ “Skin Tight” and the O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money”) that rises to a volcanic eruption that spotlights both the glories and the limits of Green’s style.
Though Green played with some of the most advanced musicians of the sixties (including the drummer Elvin Jones, the saxophonist Sam Rivers, and the organist Larry Young, who is featured on another superb Resonance release), he stayed consistent with the forms of late bebop, without pushing toward the avant-garde as they often did. That’s no knock on Green, but it does mark the difference between his consistent and incremental approach to his bands’ new modes of raising an electrical racket and that of Davis, whose multi-keyboard and multi-guitar amplified bands of the late sixties and early seventies build sheer volume and dense textures into an orchestral frenzy that Davis’s own shrieking and splintered improvisations matched head-on. Green, by contrast, doesn’t quite find the same liberation in his newly clamorous context. He shows, here, just how far he—and his style—could go.
The label’s catalogue of about sixteen hundred albums arrives in the digital realm today—but its resistance to digitization is as much a part of the story.
This 2016 photo shows the “World of Color – Season of Light” show at Disney California Adventure that fans had hoped would return this year, but repairs are not completed. (Photo by Mark Eades,, November 17, 2016.
Disney California Adventure said Tuesday that its popular World of Color show will remain closed until next year, squelching speculation by fans that it might reopen in time for the holidays. It’s been closed since April, after going down under mysterious circumstances.
The 22-minute-long water spectacle that typically takes place nightly in a lagoon at Pixar Pier is one of the most popular shows ever at Disney California Adventure. It debuted in 2010 featuring some 1,200 musical fountains that put on a sound and light show.
It has been closed since April after an unexpected incident that occurred during routine maintenance. Accounts differ over exactly what caused the malfunction — and Disney has not elaborated publicly — but it was significant enough to shut down the entire show for many months.
There had been widespread speculation and even a video posted on Facebook by MiceChat.com showing testing of the show in its lagoon indicating that the show might still reopen in time for the Christmas holidays.
Disney officials said Tuesday that World of Color is a one-of-a-kind show with extremely complicated systems, including a one-of-kind fountain and that everything has to work together. During regularly scheduled maintenance in April, components that run the show that were supposed to be submerged in the lagoon were damaged and could not be properly submerged, requiring extensive repairs.
“There was a major incident,” Disney author David Koenig said in October, saying he was precluded from providing any further details. “It would make a wonderfully dramatic story.” He correctly predicted then that the show would not reopen this year.
The ambitious World of Color took five years to plan and build in a 3.5-acre lagoon filled with 15 million gallons of water. It’s based on the idea of a “Fantasia” using water, light, color, music and animation. It uses some 1,200 programmable fountains and an underwater grid with 18,000 points of control, including lighting, color intensity, water angle and height. Fountains during the show range in height from 30 feet to 200 feet. It uses 28 high-definition projectors, including 14 that are submersible.
Disneyland update: World of Color? $80 million light and water display that’s super cool went down earlier this year and now we know why. During regular maintenance and electionic control panel was left open when the entire platform was submerged. Destroyed the computer.
Disney officials said this account wasn’t entirely accurate but declined to provide more specific details about what happened.
MiceChat.com had previously posted video showing nighttime testing going on of the World of Color systems, leading observers to speculate it might be up and running again for the holiday season.
Disney officials agreed that the show was being tested, but that the park decided it needed further work before it could be launched again.
Regan said that’s a shame, because a nightly World of Color show could help draw people away from Disneyland, which gets so crowded over Christmas week that the park occasionally has to briefly close its gates.
However, Regan said the average guest would be unlikely to be disappointed, because the show had not been advertised.
Disney officials pointed out that Disney California Adventure still offers nightly holiday shows and that the Lunar New Year festival and Food & Wine Festival will be returning next year.
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A Springfield man was arrested Thursday on a felony assault charge, accused of driving his Jeep Wrangler into a teenager�s car in a dispute over the �egging� of another vehicle in his neighborhood, police said.
McKenzie Curtis Allen, 23, was being held Friday in the Lane County Jail.
State troopers learned of a crash near 37th Street and Yolanda Avenue in the Hayden Bridge area shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday. Allen is alleged to have confronted a group of juveniles in a Ford Mustang about the �egging of a vehicle� that belongs to someone else, state police Sgt. Casey Codding said.
Allen is accused of driving his Jeep Wrangler head-on into the Mustang, then using his vehicle to push the car into a nearby tree, Codding said. A juvenile passenger in the Mustang suffered minor injuries in the crash, Codding said.
In addition to the assault charge, Allen faces charges of reckless endangering, criminal mischief and reckless driving.
A man�s standoff with police ended Thursday night when Lane County sheriff�s deputies entered a Dorena area home and arrested a man who allegedly had hidden in an attic crawl space after disregarding instructions to surrender, authorities said.
Deputies fired tear gas and pepper-spray rounds into a home in the 39000 block of Row River Road before entering the residence and arresting Roger Len Kephart, 42. He was being held Friday in the Lane County Jail on three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A sheriff�s deputy and a state trooper went to the house Thursday afternoon after learning of a disturbance there. Kephart allegedly barricaded himself inside the residence and ignored officers at the scene, authorities said.
Deputies had previously responded to the home east of Cottage Grove to investigate reports of gunshots, officials said.
A body that washed up earlier this month on Gleneden Beach near Lincoln City has been identified as that of a missing shrimper from Salem, Oregon State Police reported.
The missing man was Brian Andrew Martin, 56, police Sgt. Cari Boyd said Friday. Martin was reported missing on Dec. 30.
The body was found on the beach on Jan. 7.
The city says alternate-side parking rules will be reinstated on Wednesday, except for in areas of Southern Brooklyn that are still reeling from Sandy.
City officials announced that alternate-side parking regulations are back as of today, but the suspension remains for Brooklyn areas still reeling from Hurricane Sandy’s blow.
The rules will remain suspended indefinitely in “severely storm-damaged areas” in Community Board districts 6, 13, 15, and 18 which include Red Hook, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Gerristen Beach, Gravesend, Marine Park, Bergen Beach, and Manhattan Beach, said the city’s Department of Transportation.
“These localized exemptions will facilitate ongoing storm recovery efforts in areas with some of the most extensive damage,” the Department of Transportation spokesman said.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer Sunday for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect.
He also called on Europeans to welcome refugees from North Africa.
“In heaven, all is peace and gladness. But, alas, all is not so on earth!” the pope lamented as he delivered the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to a crowd of more than 100,000 that overflowed from St. Peter’s Square.
“In the current conflict in Libya, may diplomacy and dialogue replace arms, and may those who suffer as a result of the conflict be given access to humanitarian aid,” he said.
Uprisings, repression and civil warfare have triggered an exodus of people to Italian shores as well as other countries in the region. Europe has been split over whether to accept or deport tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from Libya and elsewhere in northern Africa.
“Here, in this world of ours, the Easter alleluia still contrasts with the cries and laments that arise from so many painful situations: deprivation, hunger, disease, war, violence,” said the pontiff, resplendent in gold-colored robes as he sat on a chair and read his speech in Italian.
This year, Easter fell on the same day in the Orthodox and Roman Catholic church calendars, and in Jerusalem, Orthodox and Catholics worshipped at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus’ Good Friday crucifixion and burial and of his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Protestants held their own ceremonies outside the walled Old City at the Garden Tomb, which some identify as the site of Jesus’ burial.
In Cagliari, Sardinia, an Easter lunch of Sardinian cheese, pasta and lamb was served by Caritas, the Catholic charity, to some 20 Tunisians, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from the island. The diners were some of the more than 26,000 Tunisians who have clandestinely entered Italy since unrest in their homeland in January.
Most are waiting for temporary travel documents from Italy they hope will let them reach France, where many have friends and relatives. France has warned the Tunisians they will be sent backed unless they have jobs or savings to support themselves.
The dispute between Rome and Paris over the Tunisians’ fate is expected to dominate much of an Italian-French summit in the Italian capital on Tuesday.
Appeals for solidarity like Benedict’s are also “words for those who keep the doors closed” to the migrants, Monsignor Albert Mario Careggio, bishop of Ventimiglia, an Italian town near the French border, told Sky TG24 TV.
In Rome, the drama of society’s unwanted played out in one of the city’s major basilicas, where some 150 Gypsies have taken refuge from city officials who are dismantling illegal Roma trailer settlements. The Gypsies say City Hall will split their families by sending women and children to a shelter in a Rome suburb but not men.
A top aide to the pope later went to St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica to meet with the Gypsies and express Benedict’s “closeness” to them, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said. Caritas later found a solution to the standoff, arranging the Gypsies’ transfer, men and women alike, to a home run by a volunteer group in hopes it could be a “prelude to a lasting, stable arrangement,” Lombardi said.
Earlier in the day, in a sign of Easter solidarity, several dozen Romans brought food, diapers and milk for babies to the improvised refugee camp at the basilica.
The 84-year-old Benedict’s voice cracked at times during the Mass, but he ended his two-hour appearance Sunday by reading aloud holiday greetings in 65 languages.
Some 41,000 potted plants lined the square, including 10,000 narcissus plants, many of them in yellow and white, the official Vatican colors, arranged in neat, rows up the slope toward the altar.

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