Word: mortality
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...readers who want just a little spice added to the Oswald-did-it scenario, there is Bonar Menninger's Mortal Error (St. Martin's Press; 361 pages; $23.95). According to Howard Donahue, a Baltimore ballistics expert, Kennedy was killed by a Secret Service agent in the presidential motorcade who accidentally discharged his AR-15 rifle. But Donahue says that Kennedy probably would have died anyway from the neck wound inflicted by Oswald. Among those unconvinced by this scenario is Menninger's publisher, who added a 17- page disclaimer to the book...
This self-centeredness can also create fragile egos. After having been accepted to such a prestigious institution as Harvard, an unusually high number of students are afraid to face possible rejection from a mere mortal...
Concern that Schneerson might disappoint his devotees was heightened earlier this month when the rebbe suffered a mild stroke. But even the leader's death would not disprove his Messianic potential, argues Steinsaltz, who believes the Redeemer will be mortal, someone who will eventually die and have successors. In the meantime, the rebbe's adherents are praying he will recover in time to bring a happy denouement to the drama they have been so eagerly anticipating...
...most remarkable things about your book, Do or Die, is that you were able to get close to people who would kill each other on sight, yet they accepted the fact that you shared the confidence of their mortal enemies. Gang members knew that if you were talking to them one day, you might be visiting the homes of their enemies the next day. How could they confide...
Jews, like the rest of us mortal humans, have done injury in this world, but the Atlantic Slave Trade was not their doing--it was Christendom's season in Hell...