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...There are a lot of new ones to meet. You may know, from previous missives, about the BLOHARDS-the Benevolent Loyal Order of Honorable and Ancient Red Sox Diehard Sufferers of New York. Among us Sox fans-among you, if you?re with us now that we?re World Champs-the BLOHARDS are, today, something bordering on semi-famous. ESPN found out about us in early ?04, and FOX followed, as FOX is wont to do. We got better known throughout the season, and Jim Shea, a diligent BLOHARDS exec, now tells me the membership roll is climbing...
...recruit black soldiers. Douglass wanted to prevent the Confederacy from using slaves to grow the food that fed its army. "The negro is the stomach of the rebellion," he wrote. "Every slave who escapes from the Rebel States is a loss to the Rebellion and a gain to the Loyal Cause." He also understood that the quickest way for blacks to gain equal rights was to become Union soldiers...
...Armstrong taught that Christians should deny the Trinity, shun medical care (though he used it as his own health deteriorated) and that remarried members should divorce their second spouses and rejoin their first (though he repealed that dictum in 1976 and a year later married a divorcée). Fanatically loyal members, many of them poor, tithed as much as $75 million a year to his church...
...National Assembly never formally recognized her as the winner of the Feb. 7 presidential election. As a result, Aquino technically presides over an illegal regime. By declaring her government revolutionary, she would free herself from Marcos' 1973 constitution. She could then dissolve the National Assembly and dismiss local officials loyal to the former President. The downside of the action is that it would leave Aquino open to charges that her government was nearly as authoritarian as the regime it replaced. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who heads the committee studying the matter, is expected to recommend a course of action this...
Febres Cordero responded by declaring a national state of emergency. Officials closed the Quito airport and ordered four local radio stations off the air. On Friday, elite government troops led by tanks stormed the air base. Air force troops loyal to Vargas were overwhelmed in a brief but fierce midday battle. The cost: four dead and nine wounded. Some 400 rebels were rounded up and confined to an army compound. "Loco" Vargas, his private rebellion quashed once and for all, was again taken into custody and imprisoned at an unnamed army base...