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...Detectives cleared the couple's sons Anthony, 29, and Mark, 32, of any involvement in the ruse in December 2007, describing them as "innocent victims." The older of the two, Mark, today in court described how his "world was crushed" on hearing his father was missing and presumed dead in 2002: "[My mother] flung her arms around me, she said 'He's gone I think. I have lost him.' She wouldn't stop crying for ages," he said. "She wandered around the house in a daze like the rest of us." Robertson commented: "Anne Darwin clearly thought nothing of lying...
...Bette Midler once called her "the woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps." But while his sister wielded sex as a weapon, especially after dropping out of college to pursue stardom in New York, Ciccone's sexuality often posed him problems. After he came out to his father, a conservative Catholic, the elder Ciccone sent Christopher a letter offering to pay for a psychiatrist to "help you with this problem...
...routinely attributed to the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote it, according to most accounts, for a sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there will present his discovery of versions of the prayer unattributed to Niehbuhr from as early...
...first question seems not immediately answerable. Sifton, Niehbuhr's daughter, says that her father preached around the country in the 1930s and could have introduced the prayer in his travels, prior to '43. The Yale Alumni article's writer, Fred Shapiro, told the Times he felt Niebuhr might have unconsciously lifted it. Quizzed on its origins in his lifetime, the theologian said, " "Of course, it may have been spooking around for years, even centuries, but I don't think so. I honestly do believe I wrote it myself." You decide...
...left her husband in Bogota, after giving him a perfunctory hug the day she was freed.) That outsider status is familiar ground for Betancourt, who was raised not among the poor masses, as Mandela was, but as an aristocratic expatriate on the plush Avenue Foche in Paris, where her father was a diplomat...