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...convent in Coimbra, Portugal. At age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th day of every month from May through October. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief...
...convent in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1917, at age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th of every month for five months. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief." ?By Daniel Simmons, with bureau reports...
...Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, who attended Summers’ NBER speech and has emerged as one of the president’s strongest defenders, concedes that the talk may have lent itself to being misinterpreted...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has also lent his endorsement to the event...
...Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services to stop rocket attacks on Israel. Israeli officials approved the deployment when they resumed contact with Abbas' administration a week after breaking it off. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, one of the militant groups responsible for the attacks, reportedly lent its support to Abbas' call for a cease-fire. In from the Cold AFGHANISTAN As part of an initiative to end the Taliban insurgency, the U.S. military released 81 suspected members of the group from its detention center at Bagram air base north of Kabul. Afghan authorities have offered low-ranking...