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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22959)	4/16/2005 5:26:29 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81330

Did you notice the pump-and-dump() on Cardinal Ratzinger lately? paddypower.com With odds of 3:1 Ratzinger is the frontrunner.... I bet you some slush fund is involved: Lustiger's backers must be busy shielding their champion from media scrutiny by pushing up the decoy Ratzinger. Only yesterday I was baffled to see on France2's 8PM newscast a reportage on UK bookmakers and the next Pope: Lustiger was reported as the #2 favorite nationwide!! Don't get me wrong, what baffled me was not the fact per se but rather the fact that the French TV blurted it out, complete with a 5-sec footage of Mgr Lustiger in Notre-Dame Cathedral.... Anyway, only a couple of days to wait for the usual Habemus Papam...* (*) sec.gov

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22959)	4/16/2005 5:55:22 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81330

Straight from the racehorse's mouth: Papal Prospects Who Aren't on the Short List By David Crary Associated Press Saturday, April 16, 2005 [...] Two French cardinals are sometimes mentioned: Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, who is only 55 and is known as an advocate for immigrant rights, and retired Paris Archbishop Jean-Marie Lustiger, 78, a confidant of John Paul's, a Jewish convert and a skeptic about lists of front-runners. "All the names that have surfaced have been invented by journalists," [Lustiger] said recently. "What happens is that most of the time, those who get it are completely unexpected." washingtonpost.com