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...divine intervention, as Joshua claimed. And while many of the pioneers of modern science ?Newton and Descartes, for example ?were devout men, they assiduously explained much of nature that previously seemed godly mysteries. Others saw no need for such reverential lip service. When he was asked by Napoleon why there was no mention of God in his new book about the stars, the French astronomer Laplace coolly answered: "I had no need of the hypothesis." Neither did Charles Darwin, in uncovering the evidence of evolution...
...Washington, Vaughn, whose real name is Napoleon Solo, checked in with a few doves. He lunched with Idaho's Democratic Senator Frank Church, had a lengthy skull session with Wayne Morse, whose "grasp of the legalities of the situation is amazing," spent the weekend at Hickory Hill as a house guest of the Bobby Kennedys, with whom he played touch political football...
This could be a trend. Maybe imperceptibly, Napoleon and his sidekick Illya Kuriyakin will dump U.N.C.L.E., join with Thrush, and come up with a new show, I Defect. Hard to believe...
AUSTERLITZ, by Claude Manceron. The campaign that Napoleon always regarded as his tactical masterpiece is meticulously reconstructed hour by hour, from inception to final triumph over the combined armies of Austria and Russia...
...proved in some way defective, and thus invalid from inception. Among grounds for annulment are impotence, refusal to have children, lunacy at time of marriage, coercion of one of the partners into wedlock, or some technical defect of the ceremony itself. French church tribunals, for instance, granted Napoleon an annulment from Josephine because the required two witnesses were not present at the marriage. Last year, the New York Archdiocese got 1,500 annulment petitions, of which it granted nearly half-mostly on the "technical defect" that the marriage was contracted before a civil authority or non-Catholic clergyman...