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Another experienced observer said whoever would want the nod from among the dozen or so possible candidates “should have his head examined.” “You’re in the public limelight all the time,” said Thomas Reese, editor of the Jesuit magazine America. “Everyone is al ways telling you how to do the job. You work grueling hours, sometimes 70 hours a week. There’s an incredible number of constituents to please, to say nothing of the media.” O’Connor died Wednesday at 80 of brain cancer after 15 years as cardinal, re garded the nation’s most influential Catholic post. In the arcane process of choosing a successor, the name that has emerged as a likely choice is that of a Connecticut bish op whose flock is less than a sixth of the Catholic population in the New York arch diocese. Bishop Edward Michael Egan of Bridgeport, Conn., was a church official in New York and spent enough years at the Vatican to be known to Pope John Paul II, who will ultimately choose the successor to O’Connor. Archbishop Theodore McCarriek of Newark, N..I. — who had been considered a candidate and who just returned from Rome — said the decision on a successor "He's a strong man, a smart man. He's very able. He's from the Chicago area, so he's already a big-city fellow. “It’s the constant rumor and I have no dilficulty in accept ing it because it’s a very appropriate appointment,” said Ahem, a former aide to O’Connor. "I le’s a strong man, a smart man. He’s very able. He’s from the Chicago area, so he’s already a big-city fellow.” New York Archdiocese spokesman Joe Zwilling refused to comment on suggestions that Egan had already been chosen, as did the spokesman for the Bridgeport diocese. Egan, who was born in Oak Park, III., just outside Chicago, is head of a diocese with 367,000 Roman Catholics in 88 parishes. I le is credited with regionalizing the Catholic school system and establishing the diocese’s In ner City Foundation. I le served in Rome for 18 years and was an auxiliary bishop in New York, chosen by O’Connor to oversee the archdiocese's education programs. His name was one of about a dozen candidates mentioned as possible succes sors. Several have strong New York con nections. 1 lenry Mansell, 62, a bishop in Buffa lo since 1995, was bom in the Bronx and educated in Catholic schools here. I le also was an auxiliary bishop in New York and a former top aide to O’Connor. Mansell, however, told reporters he would like to stay in Buffalo. Edwin O’Brien, 60, who has been // — Bishop Patrick Ahern former aide to O'Connor already has been made. He was not naming names — although he said it’s not him. “We know who the final candidate will be. ... We’ll all be delighted with the choice,” McCarriek said as he arrived in Newark after a three-day Rome visit during which he spoke with the pope. McCarriek had high praise for the 68-year-old Egan, calling him a strong administrator who had done good things in Bridge port, where he has been bishop since 1988. Egan’s name has also been mentioned as a likely succes sor by priests at Masses around the city. Bishop Patrick Ahern told parishioners at St. Thomas Moore Church in Manhattan on Thursday that he was certain Egan would be named to re place O’Connor. archbishop for the Catholic Archdiocese for the U.S. Military since 1977, was also bom in the Bronx. There is no timetable for the pope to name a successor. Many believe there will be no announiement until after O' Connor's funeral Monday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The process begins with recommendations in the United States, then goes to a committee in the Vatican, which makes its recommendations. The pope can reject any candidate and call forth another. Reese, the magazine editor, said he has heard so many names mentioned over the past nine months that he no longer takes any of them seriously. “All it means is that Bishop Egan has joined the rumor of the week club,” he said. “The fact is, this is a highly secretive process and those who know don't talk and those who don’t know spread tumors.” Continued from\ "We decided they wouldk 'You stupid B.Q.s—jusljo Adams said. “The point I am trying tog this is criticism that we cam: Adams said. “We aregreatati leaders here, but unfortunate!) also great at growing leadersi think being a leader meansba all the time.” “These are lessons that wet learn and lessons that if wet in the business of growing lead: need to fix these kindofproN Adams said. Adams compared the pro! soeiated to bonfire with ai spearean tragedy. “We are faced with an opps w here we can draw the curtains have another bonfire, or weca how to fix the things —the! that led to the tragedy in I place.” Adams said. One student pointed outtoSn land that if the University dj build bonfire next year, it is lift the students will still undertakes jeet themselves and construct^ tore off campus. “My door w ill remain opens \ iduals just as it is all the: Southerland said. Melissa Lovoi, a senior®: major, encouraged Southerly Bow en to think about their deeis fore they act. “Think of the students Aggi fire has touched and the livestk be forever changed,” Lovoi “Please think about what you do you act, because I don't wants to stand before my [bonfire]! again and tell them thatthdk lights the path to their futurehs guished.” “We know where we need to: where we need to be,” a studet “I think we will get there." y, May 5. 2000 A Memorial Continued from Page 1 the memorial and sift through the dozens of suggestions we’ve received,” Southerland said. “They’re all very interesting and come from the heart, so it’ll be a wonderful project.” Along with money for the memorial, the foundation has received funding for schol arships that will be named after the bonfire victims. There are 13 total scholarships, one named for each of the 12 victims and one to honor those who were injured in the col lapse. Each is a $50,000 endowed scholar ship, said Durwood Lewis, director of de velopment operations for the Association of Former Students. “I’ve been here for 15 years and never seen anything like this,” he said. Richard Biondie, with the Texas A&M Foundation, said 10 of the 13 scholarships are currently funded by individuals. The other three are being funded by the Texas A&M Foundation, but he speculates that eventually all 13, will be individually funded. The logs that crushed the students are also going to be used as part of the memorial process. The logs have been on the bonfire site since their removal from the collapse, and the Spe cial Commission on the 1999 Aggie Bonfire used some of them as evidence in its investi gation. Charles Sippial, interim vice president of administration, said the plan to remove the logs and use them is still being decided. Sippial said the current plan is to give the logs to Habitat for I lumanity, which will have the logs processed and use them to build 12 houses in memory of each of the victims, but the plan has not been finalized. “A decision will be made when a decision is made about how long [the logs] can stay,” Sippial said. “The commission released the logs [yesterday] and we have to get legal clearance by the state attorney general.” The logs are presently being kept in case a victim’s family takes legal action against the University and the logs are needed as evi dence in the case. Sippial said that 50 percent of any funds made from selling the wood left after the hous es are constructed by Habitat for Humanity will be given to the Bonfire Memorial Fund. Virus Continued fromm messages. It later moved into European parliamentary! through the high-tech systems of big companies and financialiradP “I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting cow virus which has immobilized the House’s internal communicdm > tern,” said Margaret Beckett, leader of Britain’s House of Con “This means that no member can receive emails from outside,! deed can we communicate with each other by e-mail.” In the United States, the "love bug” shut down the Florida!, email system, said lottery spokesman Leo DiBenigno. Theloltei) had problems with its Website, but those were determined tok lated to the virus. In Asia, Dow Jones Newswires and the Asian Wall Streetll were among the victims. The bug affected only email and didnd vent Dow Jones Newswires from distributing financial inform® traders. The Asian Wall Street Journal would have nop fishing, officials there said. But the email systems went wild. 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