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...traumatized by the fire," says her brother Evaristo de Jesus. And why, six years later, did a Pennsylvania politician and then the police decide to take this mother's instinct seriously? "I must admit, when Luz first came to me with this story, I had trouble believing her," says Angel Cruz, the Pennsylvania state representative who relayed Cuevas' story to Philadelphia law-enforcement officials. "Luz taught me that second-guessing isn't such a bad thing...
...separate and fragile panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...
...film has revealed a previously existent American fascination with Christian mysticism. In the last twelve months, Touched by an Angel won an Emmy, the HBO Adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America received a record number of Golden Globes, Christian rock group Evanescence won several Grammys and the The Da Vinci Code, a novel about alternative gospels, topped best seller lists...
Next, massive, seared diver scallops fresh from New Bedford, Mass. are served on a bed of angel hair pasta, smoked salmon and Chervil crème fraiche. The white wine that accompanies it is an upbeat blend of Marsanne, Rousanne and Viognier grapes. Brennan notes that Viognier, a temperamental grape with growing popularity, is a “fat grape, with a rich, unctuous quality. The crème fraiche will stand...
...father how he acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book of the Dead with him. A dew breaker, we will learn, is a torturer who goes out before dawn to collect his victims...