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...Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, acting as spokesman for the parents of the severely brain damaged woman and making even his counterparts on the conservative right wince in embarrassment, inveighed in a mass e-mailing that Florida State Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who approved the request by Schiavo's husband to let her die, "has shown more courage in trying to kill Terri Schiavo than Governor [Jeb] Bush has shown in trying to save her." Just a few days before Easter, Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk and spiritual adviser...
...necessary. At one point, they almost got their wish. Agents from Florida's Department of Children & Families actually did begin to head over to Schiavo's hospice, but local police at the scene made it clear that they would not allow them in without an order from Judge Greer, who had previously enjoined the state from taking such a drastic action. In the end, Governor Bush, a devout Catholic who scored valuable points with the religious right with his dogged work on the case, reluctantly admitted that "my powers are not as expansive as people would want them...
...head off the scheduled removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with her doctors and family. The move was rebuffed by Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who said there was "no cogent reason" for Congress to intervene. The tube was taken out Friday, but a day later the House and Senate were crafting a measure that would allow Schiavo's parents to take the case for keeping her alive to federal court...
...feat of winning an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Connecticut. After debuting as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor Samuel Goldwyn for refusing...
...Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Conn. After making her screen debut as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the best films of the '40s, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor, Samuel Goldwyn...