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Today's issue of L'Osservatore Romano carries a laudatory obituary of the late Paul Newman. "In his films he was the tough guy and the braggart, the rebel and the conquistador," recalls the official Vatican newspaper. "In reality Newman was a generous heart, an actor of...

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