Word: matthew
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They called themselves Protectors of the Code and claimed to be devoted to traditions of chivalry. But Matthew Goldsby and James Simmons were sentenced to 60 years in prison last week for the unchivalrous bombings last Christmas morning of three Pensacola, Fla., medical facilities where abortions were performed. Kaye Wiggins, Goldsby's fiancee, who told police that the doctors' offices had been attacked "as a gift to Jesus on his birthday," and Simmons' wife Kathy were given five years' probation and fined $2,000 apiece. The decisions were not as harsh as they seemed. Judge Roger Vinson allowed Goldsby...
...Lutheran Church in America He has worked in the Student Christian movement, and as a scholar has shown special concern for the impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on New Testament scholarship. He is also renowned for his studies of the Gospel of St. Matthew...
Reagan and Kohl spent just eight minutes at the cemetery. Accompanied by two World War II officers--General Matthew Ridgway, 90, who led the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, and General Johannes Steinhoff, 71, a former Luftwaffe ace--they walked a path encircling the headstones, then stopped at a gray wall, where four German soldiers attended two tall wreaths. The two Americans and the two Germans simultaneously approached their separate wreaths. Then they stepped back as a German military bugler sounded a German tribute to lost soldiers, I Once Had a Comrade. Kohl and Reagan met some relatives of German soldiers...
...just about had to be cursed. And so they were: Etienne of Navarre (Rutger Hauer) is transformed into a wolf each night; the lady Isabeau (Michelle Pfeiffer) must become a hawk by day. Always together, eternally apart, these two ironic superheroes have a mediating companion, the impish cutpurse Phillipe (Matthew Broderick again). Not a bad premise for a wistful romance, especially when it stars three such appealing actors. Alas, the script (by Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas and Tom Mankiewicz) jumbles modern slang with chivalric sentiment; and Director Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman) is no spellbinder of medieval melancholy. "I believe...
...Roberts), a clothier who fell in love with a well-to-do girl, is anxious about being sent to the war; he sees conscription as desertion of his wife Lizzie (Hallie Foote), his infant daughter and the baby on the way. While Lizzie's winsome wastrel of a brother (Matthew Broderick) gets into trouble with gambling debts and a pregnant girlfriend, Horace falls victim to the flu. There is a death in the family, and a birth. In Harrison, though, life's scars are hidden under high collars and good manners. If these folks keep their thoughts to themselves...