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...that Pentagon lawyers phoned Spinner Wednesday night with word that the request was rejected. By 11 p.m., Kelly and her family had gathered with Spinner at their hotel and were arguing that she should quit the fight and pray that the Air Force would agree to give her a general discharge, not an other than honorable one. "Kelly being a fighter, her first inclination was to fight all the way," says her father Don of the session. "But we said it was pretty much that if she won the fight she might lose...
...just want to depend on their God for the preservation of their lives. Your story on Dennis and Lorie Nixon, "Her Dying Prayers," illustrates the typical '90s rush to judgment that would convict a family on the basis of its religious beliefs and the fact that its members pray to God for healing. Were Jesus traveling the roads of Altoona, Pa., rather than Galilee, healing the sick and preaching, he would have been tried under the full power of prosecuting attorney William Haberstroh. CASEY W. WRIGHT Phoenix, Ariz...
...close quarters with your potential killers is intensified in prose as precise and deadpan as a coroner?s report. And as he has done so often, Garc?a M?rquez makes the fantastic seem ordinary. At one point Marina Montoya asks her cold-blooded keepers to kneel with her and pray. They do, each to the same God for the same reasons: to protect their lives and deliver them from evil. It is a classic Garc?a M?rquez instance -- comic, tragic and all too human...
...better maintained than most of the other houses on the street. In the backyard are bright-colored swings and slides for their numerous children. The neighbors point out that the Nixon kids always wear safety helmets when they ride by on their new bicycles. And Dennis and Lorie Nixon pray for their kids. They pray all the time...
...Many were told, 'Pray or be shot,'" said the man, who was not identified...