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...Prophet Leo Durocher’s quote “nice guys finish last” could’ve easily come from the Bible. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not particularly nice guys and they did all right. Criminals Ty Cobb, Ray Lewis and Mike Tyson all ruled their respective sports (indeed, Mike Tyson is proof that God is a twisted sports fan—how else could the world’s scariest man have the girliest voice...
...Gabriel Abraham, resident tutor
Especially interesting is Kennedy’s discussion of the influence different perceptions of interracial relationships have had on political history. Thomas Jefferson’s enemies called the president’s character into question with rumors that Jefferson sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings, while Abraham Lincoln’s opponents coined the term “miscegenation” during the 1864 campaign, seeking to turn public opinion against Lincoln by suggesting that the Republican party condoned interracial marriage...
...everyone is convinced that all jurors can be so immune to distraction. "It's a seductive thing to have a camera there," says Abraham Abramovsky, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. "You pay a little bit too much attention to the camera as opposed to what you're supposed to do, which is to be the judge of facts...
...remind me of him. We both hate you." And where Adam, or God, is the villain, for siring an Abel whose goodness tortures Cain. (Perhaps Eve was cloned in the Garden of Eden; otherwise, where did Cain and Abel find their wives?) Salter, I guess, is Adam, and Abraham too, betrayed by the gods to whom he handed over his child - not to be killed but to be traded in for a better model...