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...hope of the prosecutors to construct a case that dashes the current good feelings of Jones and McVeigh. The brief the Justice Department filed laid out in detail some of the ways they intend to do that, but it raised a potential problem with regard to John Doe No. 2. Identification of that individual is crucial because it forecloses the possibility that the suspected McVeigh accomplice is still at large. That the Justice Department had dismissed John Doe No. 2 was not news; back in June 1995 it announced that it had called off its manhunt. The news detailed...
...apostle Paul testifies to one example of this "love the sinner, hate the sin" concept can be seen in I Timothy 1:8-11, 15-16. It reads, "Now we know that the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the glorious gospel...
...romance between the young Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) and a nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock). With the usual bravado, Hemingway is fulfilling his duties as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, but is shot while trying to save a wounded soldier. Once he's laid up in a hospital, there's nothing left for him to do, really, but fall in love with his nurse...
Robert Rebres knows the drill. First you get downsized, then you start pounding on doors for a job--except that this time employers were pounding on his door. When the mechanical engineer was laid off last November by Genesis Technology, a supplier of business machines in Hayward, California, his phone started ringing. A bidding war ensued before Rebres, 57, accepted an offer that paid $12,000 more than...
...Lisa Gallagher scans the wires every day, hoping to turn bad news into good. No sooner does she spot notices of layoffs at other companies than her employer, software developer CSC Continuum, takes out help-wanted ads in the stricken communities. That's fortunate for people who have been laid off and vital for her company, which is scrambling to hire 300 in the next six months. "We are in critical [hiring] mode," Gallagher says...