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...Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code brims with mysteries: Did Jesus have a girlfriend? And did they have a daughter, whose descendants live today? Is the Priory of Sion an ancient covenant whose Grand Masters, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, have sworn to protect this royal blood line? Is Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic sect Brown paints in such lurid colors, really that awful? Can a fictional thriller that is nothing more or less than (as one Biblical scholar called it) "a great plane read" be taken seriously as an ecclesiastical exposé? (My short answers...
...moms who take up their kids' sports with the right attitude, the rewards can be long lasting. Gail Silberstein, an attorney in Newton, Mass., started rowing when her daughters did in eighth and ninth grades. Now the girls are off at college, but many a dawn finds their 50-year-old mother sculling down the Charles, gliding past leafy shores busy with wildlife. "I never would have found this," she says, "if my kids hadn't shown...
...nationwide sampling of this week's sermons, the U.S. clergy held with firmness to traditional Christian (and Jewish and Mohammedan) principles on this point. The news from Elugelab did not set off a wave of pacifist sentimentality. A passage in a sermon by Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Baptist Church, was typical of the main strain of comment on the H-bomb. Said Dr. Newton...
...said that he recently found his former freshman-year roommate from Iowa, whom he hadn’t seen in over twenty years, living in Newton...
...Retouched: The Photographs of Baldomero Alejos” is open until June 1, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street and at the Center for Latino Arts, 85 W. Newton Street, Boston...