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Yet, as the religious historian Alban Goodier writes in his book Saints for Sinners: "To many of his contemporaries, he was thought a failure ... [but] probably there is no saint ... no hero in history who has more enthusiastic admirers than St. Francis Xavier." For whatever the vicissitudes and disappointments, Xavier...
A seventh-grade dropout from Rich Square, North Carolina, Jenkins possessed an intelligence that military aptitude tests determined was far below average. He had doubts about his ability to lead men into battle, and he slid into bouts of depression and heavy drinking. His life was about to get worse...
The Americans even coined a word for doing things without permission in this land of the unfree: "freedalisms." On one occasion, the four swam across a river to pilfer a bag of coal tar from a government construction site to repair their (illegal) fishing boat. "To steal something from the...
As bleak as Jenkins knew North Korea to be, it was the only home his daughters had known, and he had to handle their exit gingerly. He told his younger daughter Brinda that they were leaving for good, but he felt he couldn't tell Mika. "Mika didn't want...
RETIRED. TOM BROKAW, 64, anchor of NBC's Nightly News; after 21 years; in New York City. Brokaw, who was promoted from the morning Today show in 1982, helped propel NBC to the top of the ratings, where it has remained since 1997. He also found success as an author...