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...town's 5,000 residents were killed, mostly children and old people; perhaps another thousand visitors died. Far from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, which had begun the previous July, the town had no military importance. Its bombing was an exercise in terror. Nazi Germany's gift to Nationalist leader General Franco was also, as Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering told the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, "an opportunity to put my young air force to the test...
...woman open to life. I hold that a homosexual couple does not constitute a family." It seems likely that Benedict has chosen his destination strategically, in order to hammer home a point. (He is free to select his foreign jaunts from endless invitations.) "It's a gift for the Pope," says Austen Ivereigh, a top aide to Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster. "He can say, 'Look at Zapatero, this is what really underlies European secularism.' In Spain, he will look like he's articulating what is close to the heart of the mass of Europeans." Of course...
Lesa Lessard Pearson, executive director of the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation, identified the $12.35 million donation as the largest single gift to the Rappaport Institute to date. The gift raised the total amount donated by the Foundation to the Kennedy School above $15 million...
...Wedding season is here again. Your attendance has been requested. Dust off your finest, buy a well-wrapped gift, and slap on an optimistic smile...
...odds of divorce by almost a third. We don't know if the classes actually change the couples, or if those couples are already realistic and savvy to the dangers (which is why they were smart enough to take the class). But premarital counseling might be the best wedding gift any newlyweds can receive...