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...Maimonides is revered by many cultures, he cannot be usurped by Muslim scholars as "first and foremost" one of their own. Maimonides embodied the Jews' mission to be "a light unto the nations." His multicultural genius enabled him to show the intellectual world the supremacy of the word of God over the philosophy of man. Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, Director The Hebrew Academy Lubavitch Westminster, Calif. Barely Mentioned...
Although his father is an Assemblies of God minister, Ezell is an outspoken enemy of "clergy smugglers," who grant sanctuary to illegal immigrants. INS agents in Ezell's region have infiltrated congregations in Arizona whose members are being prosecuted for taking in such aliens. The Presbyterian and American Lutheran churches last week sued the INS and other Government agencies for these activities, but Ezell's convictions are firm. "You either obey laws or you don't," he says. "The Bible tells you to obey laws...
...illness, Batà instructs Sidora to lock herself away from him, but as the moon waxes he breaks through a window and attacks her. Come the next full moon, Sidora is prepared for the worst and the best. Her handsome cousin Saro (Massimo Bonetti) will protect her and, if God hears her prayers, fulfill the desperate passion they have for each other. That night, a cloud passes across the moon, sparing Batà from his convulsions and offering him a glimpse of his wife undressing for her lover. A new, more powerful sickness fells Batà, and as he finally sinks into exhaustion...
DIED. Herbert W. Armstrong, 93, autocratic founder-leader of the 75,000-member Worldwide Church of God; in Pasadena, Calif. Forsaking an advertising career in 1934 to become a radio preacher and self-proclaimed "Chosen Apostle" of God, Armstrong taught that Christians should deny the Trinity, shun medical care (though he used it as his own health deteriorated) and that remarried members should divorce their second spouses and rejoin their first (though he repealed that dictum in 1976 and a year later married a divorcée). Fanatically loyal members, many of them poor, tithed as much as $75 million...
...Willie McCovey, you made it too. Nice hat, Mrs. Gorbachev. Hold it, please. I have to think. Didn't I read something by Octavio Paz that fits in here? Or was it Pia Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting when they least expect it. It's work. Whatever the others say, it's work...