Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anti-Semitism has had a long and troubled history in Poland. Though Poles can claim a better record of tolerance than their Russian and German neighbors, suspicion and fear of the Jew as an outsider have all too frequently erupted over the centuries in persecution and pogroms. On the eve of World War II, Poland had the largest Jewish population in Europe. The Nazi Holocaust, postwar migration and a later purge reduced a once thriving community of 3.3 million to a tiny minority of some...
...kept out of fights by negotiating agreements under which rival gangs would stay off Bryn Mawr Avenue, the Musketeers' turf. That testimony comes from his younger brother Frank, a Jesuit priest who is chairman of the physics and computer science department at Loyola College in Baltimore. One Christmas Eve Al, then nine, offered to prove to five-year-old Frank that there was no Santa Claus; he led his brother on a reconnaissance mission to watch their parents placing presents under the tree...
...have had any choice. For Kung writes that one does not have to believe all that the Church teaches to be a good Catholic. But where does one draw the line? If Church pronouncements are not sacred, what about the Bible? Kung also dispenses with Adam and Eve, the parting of the Red Sea, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, and the acts of the apostles. But if all of these can be explained away because they are not "rational," what about the central miracle of Christianity, God becoming a man in Christ? Is it rational to believe...
...Adam and Eve...
...Grasso to finish her second term-and perhaps a third or fourth-but last April doctors discovered she had ovarian cancer. By December the disease had spread to her liver. Grasso valiantly ran the state government from her hospital room for weeks, finally resigning on New Year's Eve. After slipping in and out of a coma several times, she died last week...