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Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon...
...other two faculty members, Assistant Professor of Anatomy Helen Deane Markham and Social Relations teaching fellow Leon Kamin, maintained similar silence under congressional scrutiny...
CAPTURED. ABU ABBAS, 54, leader of a Palestinian terrorist group that hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, shooting American Leon Klinghoffer to death and pushing him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean Sea; in a raid by U.S. Special Forces; in Baghdad, where he had been living freely. Abbas is in the custody of the U.S. If extradited to Italy, where he was convicted, he would face a life sentence; if tried in the U.S., he could face death...
...Even a Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, has asked for more time to study one of Bush's nominees, J. Leon Holmes of Arkansas. Holmes, a past president of Arkansas Right to Life, has asserted that "conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency as snow in Miami." In fact, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, about 25,000 pregnancies each year are the result of rape...
...Augustinian motif of sinning one's way to God shows up even in the early life of Dorothy Day, saintly founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The wild young Day studied Emma Goldman's anarchism. She interviewed Leon Trotsky. She had an abortion. She climbed into bed with the dead-drunk Eugene O'Neill to keep him warm until he fell asleep. Now Rome is seriously considering her for canonization...