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...when you need it. You may be all there is to defend yourself." This is the kind of talk the gun lobby appreciates. Yet the white-haired, 20-year veteran of the House is also known for his intellectual honesty. He follows his deeply held beliefs -- he is a devout Catholic who is against abortion -- but he keeps an open mind on many issues. In a fight where most minds are shut tight, that made him a long- shot possibility for the forces of Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Charles Schumer, the authors of the assault-weapons ban. "We knew...
...Arabs in revenge for Kahane's death. Last fall Goldstein quit the Kiryat Arba council. Some neighbors say it was because the council had rejected his demand to bar new immigrants to Israel, many of them from Russia, from moving to Kiryat Arba. He felt they were not sufficiently devout...
...will give just one vivid example of the opportunistic trend-chasing that the Ivy league has systematically cally rewarded with its ultimate honors. A prominent woman literature professor at Harvard obtained her present position as a devout disciple of Deride and Paul de Man, an affiliation that changed only in the late Eighties when it was revealed that de man was a Nazi sympathizer. For this and other reasons, deconstruction began to sink...
...details remain of Marie Sullivan's life.She was headstrong, a devout Catholic, a widow,Irish by birth and the youngest of three siblings.She lived in Harvard Square, and now resides ingrave 112, range 72, of the Cambridge Cemeterywelfare lot. She could have been almost anyone,but her strength of character set her apart inlife and afterword, friends said. "I think whatwas unique about Marie was that she was notbitter...She was a genuinely warm, caring person,"Fels said. "She touched people...
...when Collins signed on as a junior faculty member at Michigan, he had been married for 15 years to his high school sweetheart and had two daughters, ages 14 and 10. Just as important to him, he had become a devout Christian, focusing on what had previously seemed an irrelevant corner of life. While living in the campus town of Ann Arbor, Collins and his wife helped start a Baptist church. The congregation -- and his marriage -- has since dissolved, but his faith, which he describes as basically nondenominational, endures...