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...horseplaying priest, however, who best expresses O'Connor's unhappy but indissoluble Gaelic family. "O Lord," he prays, "a man gives up the whole world for You ... his friends and his job, and goes off to a bare mountain where he can't even tell his troubles to the man alongside him; and still he keeps something back, some little thing to remind him of what he gave up. With me 'twas the horses and with this man 'twas the sup of beer, and I dare say there are fellows inside who have...
...right. She coolly sacked three of the party grandees in her Cabinet and pushed out the popular Conservative Party chairman, shuffled around six other senior ministers, elevated three loyalists to the Cabinet, then fired four junior ministers. In all, 40 posts were involved in the shakeup. Out went Lord Soames, the leader of the House of Lords, Winston Churchill's son-in-law and a pillar of the Tory establishment, who as the last governor-general of Rhodesia had brought plaudits to the Thatcher government by skillfully guiding the former colony through its elections and emergence as independent Zimbabwe...
...Lord of heaven and earth: The earth was not; you created it. The light of the day was not; you created it. The morning light you had not yet made exist...
...biblical account of Samson. Pettinato writes that in some Eblaite personal names, the syllables ya and el mean "god," and that Ya might have been the proper name of a specific deity. Naturally that brings to mind the later Hebrew names for the one God, Yahweh (Jehovah) and El (Lord). Pettinato also finds in Ebla a possible Flood story, prophets and tribal leaders whose function is reminiscent of the biblical Judges...
Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, was out of town this week and could not be reached to explain the creation of the positions. The posts will be under Schmidt; presumably, one of the new vice presidents will supervise Deane Lord, director of information, and the other will oversee the efforts of state and local lobbvists including Louis Armistead, assistant to the vice president for community affairs...