Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...Judas were commonly used in the 1st century. One of those discoveries is especially intriguing. In 1990, diggers in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City uncovered an ossuary (repository for bones) with the inscription JOSEPH SON OF CAIAPHAS. This marked the first archaeological evidence that the high priest Caiaphas, who according to the Gospels presided at the Sanhedrin's trial of Jesus, was a real person. So, indisputably, was Pilate. In 1961, diggers in Caesarea found the fragment of a plaque indicating that a building had been dedicated by PONTIUS PILATUS, PREFECT OF JUDEA...
...executive privilege. And there is something troubling about a president saying 'by virtue of my office, I'm at least a little bit above the law.' That said, there is a considerable precedent for the courts allowing a number of other special privileges, such as attorney-client and priest-penitent." Cohen says Clinton's lawyers were probably only covering all the bases by also citing executive privilege: "Often in legal papers, people make every argument they think is relevant, just in case their first argument, which they feel is their strongest point, is rejected...
...contribution from the company. He also invited Time Warner chairman and CEO Gerald Levin to a recent $1,000-a-plate fund raiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel. (Levin did not attend.) And after grabbing headlines for condemning Disney's Miramax Films for the movie Priest and making a huge to-do over selling $15,000 worth of his wife's Disney stock in protest, Dole took a $4,000 contribution from the company in August. Last year Dole's Campaign America fund took in $79,000 from the entertainment industry...
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. By JEAN-BERT-RAND ARISTIDE, 42, former priest and current President of Haiti; in Port au Prince. Although Aristide refused to name his fiancee, sources close to him identified her as MILDRED TROUILLET, a presidential legal counselor...