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...Michael Pagan, an unemployed laborer, sparked a national furor 6½ months ago when he wandered into Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace bedroom for an early-morning chat. After several court appearances, he was sent to a maximum-security hospital for psychiatric treatment. Pagan was freed last week by a mental health review tribunal on the grounds that he no longer posed a danger to others. Many Britons thought otherwise. Conservative Member of Parliament Sheila Faith had one word for the decision: "incomprehensible...
...fear of, evil spirits; yet they also plumb the animist religions for concepts of eternal life or of a remote "high god" or primordial creator that might be used to inspire belief in the one God of the Bible. After all, the missionaries point out, Christmas was originally a pagan rite that ancient preachers turned to good advantage...
...Christian celebration of Christmas," explained Judge Hugh Bownes in the Pawtucket case. "The crèche is purely a Christian religious symbol; this is the distinction between the crèche and Christmas as a holiday." Christmas trees, for example, are generally considered secular because of their origins in pagan rituals. Public school Christmas pageants have won court approval as long as the cultural significance outweighed the religious...
Hundreds of guys like us didn't know that Freshman Week. Thumbing through the Register night after night, we inevitably ended up on page 90, just below Ingrid Lorentzen Ott and above Heriberto Roman Pagan...
...Pagan's suicidal bent, according to Scotland Yard, was what led him to appear at the Queen's bedside with a piece of broken ashtray in hand, dripping blood on the bedclothes from a cut thumb. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Dellow, who carried out the investigation, reported that Pagan's movements had been more extensive than earlier accounts had indicated. Fagan got inside, Dellow said, by climbing a railing near the gates to the Ambassadors' entrance at 6:45 a.m. He was spotted by a policeman, but in the first breakdown of communications, the police...