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Religious leaders who support Moon are forced to agree with this argument if they want any moral and constitutional high ground to stand on, but many find its bald expression distasteful, as the National Council of Churches disapproves of religions which exalt documents or individuals whose genesis occured after Christ's. On this point Nicholas M. Buscovich, Director of the Unification Church of Massachusetts, says simply, "There was a three-year period when, in essence, Reverend Moon was the church...
...year, Roosevelt tried to neutralize his judicial nemeses by "packing the court." He proposed appointing one additional new Justice, up to a total of six, for every sitting Justice over 70. "This plan will save our national Constitution from hardening of the judicial arteries," F.D.R. declared. It was a bald power play, a flouting of the separation of powers. A constitutional crisis loomed...
...game that the Seahawks led by 23 points and lost by 15. Patriot Rookie Irving Fryar caught the first touchdown pass of his pro career. Even before Harris had shed all of his armor afterward, Fryar appeared at Franco's stall and quietly sat down next to a bald man with an amiable smile, Bill Gordon, who happened to coach them both in high school. Gordon regarded the two players with the pleasure of an architect imagining his last house adjoining his first. To Fryar, 21, the thought of just having shared a field with Franco Harris was stupefying...
Hoddy had a golden eagle, a twelve-year-old female named Fluff, and he wanted it in the show. The show, while accepting Hoddy's proposal, wanted a bald eagle-national bird and all that-instead of a golden. The one picked came from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where it had lived for 22 years virtually without flying. Its name was Bomber, and according to Hoddy, "it looked like a little butterball turkey...
...fowl and alligators. When the 200-ft.-wide, 30-ft.-deep channel was completed and the Kissimmee's annual overflow was eliminated, two-thirds of its adjacent marshland, or 20,000 acres, shriveled up, taking with it the plants and animals dependent on the wet-and-dry cycle. Bald eagles, which feasted on the marsh fish that flourished during the summer flood each year, declined catastrophically; their population is currently only 26% of its prechannel total. Mottled ducks and coots are down by 93%, and alligators have disappeared from many areas. Says Johnny Jones, head of the Florida Wildlife...