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...second time. I have always thought of Graham as one of the most outstanding and gifted spiritual leaders in the world. His sermons have always been uplifting and meaningful in my personal life. The article certainly portrayed man with great spiritual faith in God and love for all mankind. Graham's comments in the sidebar "On Life and Loss" were exceptional. The significance of his loss of Ruth in June 2007 and knowing that he will one day join her in heaven is something that everyone should come to understand, as well as the true love and devotion expressed...
...hope everyone who read the story on Graham will see how he exemplifies Christian belief. His faith is not dogmatic or wrathful, as so many depictions would have it. It is a faith of forgiveness, strength, hu- mility, perseverance and, most important, love. It is a love for mankind from a creator that will not stop loving us. It is with this love, belief and acceptance of Jesus as his Saviour that he will be led to his eternal home and back to his precious Ruth. Thank you, Rev. Graham, for being our modernday Paul and fighting the good fight...
...romances as Four Weddings and Notting Hill, because our expectations have changed. "If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it's called searingly realistic, even though it's never happened in the history of mankind," he notes. "Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you're accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental...
...local civic leaders, including diplomat John Jay. A mob pelted them with stones, knocking Jay unconscious. Only a volley from the militia, which killed three rioters, dispersed the crowd. The people of New York acknowledged, as a petition against grave robbing put it, that dissection served the "benefit of mankind." But they didn't want their loved ones "mangle[d] ... out of a wanton curiosity ..." After the riot, the state legislature appeased the public by giving doctors the corpses of executed criminals...
Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing may have been a giant leap for mankind, but his big, bulky spacesuit made it look more like a slow shuffle...