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...much admired by logging outfits, is an empty legalism.But the fact is that Headwaters and miles beyond it are owned, as is Pacific Lumber, by Hurwitz's Houston-based Maxxam company. After he grabbed Pacific in a 1986 hostile takeover, paid for largely with junk bonds issued by Drexel Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken, Hurwitz visited Pacific's mills at Scotia. "There's a story about the golden rule," he told employees. "He who has the gold rules." Then he drained $55 million from the firm's $93 million pension fund and, with the remaining $38 million, bought annuities from...
...best-selling collection of angel encounters, A Book of Angels, author Sophy Burnham writes that angels disguise themselves -- as a dream, a comforting presence, a pulse of energy, a person -- to ensure that the message is received, even if the messenger is explained away. "It is not that skeptics do not experience the mysterious and divine," she explains, "but rather that the mysteries are presented to them in such a flat and factual, everyday, reasonable way so as not to disturb." The rule, she says, is that people receive only as much information as they can bear, in the form...
...remove not the danger but the fear of it. Among the most memorable stories of World War I is the tale of the Angel of Mons. In August 1914 during one of the first battles of the war, British and French troops were retreating from a German assault. As Burnham tells the story, the wounded soldiers were taken to field hospitals where one, then another and another, told the nurses of seeing angels on the field. The French saw the Archangel Michael, riding a white horse. The British said it was St. George, "a tall man with yellow hair...
...Burnham said that in the course of Hogue's work for the class, which included one laboratory or field trip each week, Hogue examined rocks from the Mineralogy Museum's collection...
...Burnham also said he did not have a sense of what kind of student James Arthur Hogue...