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...believed that the lower the number permil, the wetter the season was when it was created.) "The patina could not have been created in the Judean Hills or the surrounding area in a natural way," Bar-Matthews told the court in October 2007. With the exception of one letter in the word Yeshua ("Jesus"), she said, "the patina in the other letters is not natural...
Sinclair remembers a time when the area was relatively open. Security guards recall an incident decades ago when a vandal-prankster removed a brass letter from one of the celebrity plaques. Since then, sections have been either locked off or carefully monitored. Sinclair adds, "There are cameras and sound devices...
...notion that the House version of the legislation might allow the government to decide when, in his words, to "pull the plug on Grandma," Democrats decided he was past the point of any hope. And then came Grassley's late-August coup de grâce, a campaign fundraising letter. "The simple truth is that I am and always have been opposed to the Obama Administration's plans to nationalize health care," Grassley wrote. "Period." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...Casey Jr., a Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania and a staunchly pro-life Catholic. Casey's late father, a former governor of Pennsylvania, is revered by Catholics for speaking out against the Democratic Party's support for abortion rights. But that didn't stop Martino from sending Casey letters - also issued as press releases - warning the Senator that his opposition to abortion was insufficient. In one such letter, Martino wrote that Casey "persist[s] formally in cooperating with the evil brought about by this hideous and unnecessary [abortion] policy" and suggested that the Senator could be denied the Eucharist...
...Owen believes "the British government became so deeply embedded in the negotiations [to solve the al-Megrahi problem] that they lost sight of the likely domestic political response and the wider diplomatic context," including the predictable anger of the U.S. A Sept. 1 letter written by Richard LeBaron, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London, to authorities in Scotland withholds consent for Washington's "government-to-government" correspondence to be made public but reiterates "the United States Government's consistent and long-standing view that Mr. Megrahi should serve out his prison sentence in Scotland...