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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22991)4/19/2005 5:04:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 81384
 
Although Mgr Lustiger has been at the top of the bookmakers' shortlist of Papabili from day one, all the media quacks don't even mention him as an odds-on outsider?!? Why such a mismatch?

Lustiger is still #2 on Paddypower...

paddypower.com

...yet off the Guardian's radar:

Who will be the next pope?

John Hooper and Sarah Left
Friday April 15, 2005


On Monday cardinals will sequester themselves inside the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to elect a successor. A two-thirds majority is required to elect the new pope, and after each vote the ballot papers are burned. Black smoke rising from the chapel signals that the cardinals have not reached agreement; white smoke means a new pope has been chosen.

Likely candidates to succeed John Paul II include:

guardian.co.uk