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...Muslim. Pastor Timothy Keller spoke of the importance of allowing one's heart to be "melted by the sense of God's grace because of what he did on the cross for you." After he finished, I asked Coulter whether she had managed to convert her Muslim boyfriend. "No," she answered, her heart apparently not melted: "I was just happy he wasn't killing anyone." With that, she threw her head back and laughed. --With reporting by Nathan Thornburgh/New York
...recantation cases is on those challenging the conviction, and the decision of the judge rehearing evidence is virtually never second-guessed by appeals courts. After listening to Webb, 23, explain that she made up the kidnaping and rape eight years ago because she feared she was pregnant by her boyfriend, Judge Samuels weighed her statements against what he had heard at the 1979 trial. He concluded she was less believable now and seemed to have a "selective recollection" of events. As Samuels told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter last week, "Her demeanor was totally different...
...those still unsure about the book’s quality, ponder the advice that closes the “Ms. Independence” chapter: you are “crossing the line [if] you represent yourself when you’re on trial for running your boyfriend over with a lawnmower...
About three days before this incident, my boyfriend of two years and I had broken up, and I’d been experiencing horrifyingly vivid visions of my single future. There I would be, living in one shabby room of an old blind lady’s apartment in Queens. For company, I’d have six cats, which I’d name things like “Mr. Right” and “Main Man.” Upon returning home from work each day, I would make tuna for supper and share it with...
...graduated, when my mother was 21. Granted, that was in 1978, but evidence from more modern sources reinforces the idea that you’d better meet your life partner in college. My best friend from high school got a “promise necklace” from her boyfriend last Christmas. My sorority does a special ritual when girls get engaged. (I’m sure it’s creepy and involves singing.) My Quantitative Reasoning 34 textbook even calls colleges “magnificent local marriage markets...