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SHARON ROCHA, mother of Laci Peterson, in emotional testimony to the jury deciding whether Scott Peterson should get the death penalty for the murder of his wife...
...Matthew's account, Joseph and Mary are Bethlehem residents and Jesus is born at home. But his very birth necessitates their flight to Egypt (and eventually Nazareth) because Jerusalem's vicious regent, Herod, is determined to murder the Bethlehem child he has learned will one day be King of the Jews. None of that gripping story, however, can be found in Luke. According to Luke, Joseph and Mary, Nazarenes, are on a brief if inconvenient visit to Joseph's ancestral home of Bethlehem, complying with a vast census ("All the world should be enrolled") ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus...
...potential Jewish converts could feel comfortable with the new religion. The clue is Herod, whose failure to track down Jesus leads him to order the death of all local children under age 2. That "Slaughter of the Innocents" is a near replay of a much earlier infanticide: Pharaoh's murder of all the male infants of Israel in Exodus. Jews would recall that Pharaoh's most famous escapee (via those bulrushes) was Moses, who eventually received the Law from God at Sinai. Through the echoing narrative, Matthew was arguing for Jesus as Moses' successor. Says The Birth of Christianity...
...it’s really on the B-sides, away from label attention, where Morrissey steps up the traditional morbidity and gets away with murder. He bashes Ringo Starr in “It’s Hard To Walk Tall When You’re Small,” offering his most direct attack since he railed against Natalie Merchant after she covered his “Everyday Is Like Sunday.” Like he has so effortlessly throughout his career, he effectively dives into simple depths of misery on the shimmering “My Life...
...Scarum, Charles Bronson, D.R.I., Husker Du, and Atom Kinder. I’ve really gotten into Lightning Bolt over the past couple of weeks, and both Mecca Normal and Heroin have made more than a few appearances on my turntable. While I’m studying, I lean towards Murder by Death and Billie Holiday. In terms of shows, I recently saw (and loved) Lucky Dragons and Pleasurehorse, both from Providence...