Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WINNER SABINA FORBES (8) (nee Beekman): father was a prominent clergyman...
Having baked a layer cake of fraud, Frankel sought to add some icing by establishing a charitable trust with connections to the Vatican--the ultimate cover. Through a prominent New York City attorney, Thomas Bolan, Frankel met with Father Peter Jacobs, a gadabout clergyman who has ties to New York luminaries, including Walter Cronkite. Jacobs introduced Frankel to Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni, a Vatican official. Frankel claimed that his St. Francis of Assisi Foundation would distribute more than $2 billion to Catholic charities. He took to obsessively studying the lives of the saints, almost as avidly as he consulted astrological charts...
...overcome prejudice by falling in love. A tiny gerbil helps a couple of ostriches harvest a giant beet. Strength of character, rather than muscle, enables the heroes of this cozy collection of children's stories to perform amazing feats of kindness, understanding and cooperation. The text, written by a clergyman, refrains from preaching, and the illustrations by Jacqueline Rogers are sweet but not saccharine. Each of the 13 moral tales ends with a question, providing a natural segue to discussion. The book is targeted at children ages 4 to 8, but parents and older kids will also enjoy these refreshing...
First conversation, July 1925: Anna (Pernilla August) tells her uncle, Pastor Jacob (Max von Sydow), of her affair with Tomas (Thomas Hanzon), a divinity student; Jacob advises her to reveal the affair to her husband Henrik (Samuel Froler), also a clergyman. Second conversation, a few weeks later: Anna tells Henrik. Third, a few months before: Anna and Tomas have their tryst. Fourth, 10 years later: Anna talks with Jacob about her marriage and the affair. Final conversation, May 1907: the 18-year-old Anna makes a confession to Jacob...
...from rural districts where jobs are limited, and the temptations of China's already crowded cities--and America's streets of gold--are impossible to resist. They aren't prepared for the harshness of the life they find in New York City, according to Yung Fong Chan, a clergyman whose church serves the Fujianese immigrants. "Mental illness and suicide have both become serious problems," he says. "People, isolated from their families and forced to endure hardship they never imagined, just snap." Then there is the constant pressure from the gangs who brought them over and continue to see the immigrants...