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...Sniper leaves letter, above, demanding $10 million and saying he will call police the next day. The sniper also rebukes the task force for "incompitence"[sic] claiming his calls to five separate entities--including the FBI and an Ashland priest--were treated like a "joke." The postscript: "Your children are not safe anywhere at anytime...
...circle. Privately, Lemaire adds that the number of James/Joseph/Jesus families who utilized an ossuary is perhaps further reduced when one eliminates those belonging to the Sadducee sect, which did not believe in bodily resurrection and would have been less likely to preserve bones. (Others disagree: the high priest Caiaphas was a Sadducee, and his ossuary turned up in 1990.) One might also subtract the trios who used uninscribed ossuaries, and those whose survivors could afford no ossuary at all. When one is done subtracting, Lemaire believes, there is a 90% chance that the James on the ossuary was the biblical...
...Trade friction? Racial tension on Okinawa? In Shimoda, the irritants in the modern U.S.-Japan relationship seem far away?Xand that's the idea. "Sometimes the relations between the U.S. and Japan are influenced by emotional feelings and economics," said Ryosenji priest Daiei Matsui. "Shimoda should maintain the human relationship based on cultural understanding." Heady stuff for countries whose common history includes a pair of atomic bombs. But as the bartender testifies, Shimoda represents an altogether different kind of ground zero...
...this rejection of Vodafone's offer risks plunging Vivendi deeper into the abyss. The big question now is how long Vivendi's shareholders - and lenders - are willing to stay there. MEDIA Hacker, Or Just A Great Hack? saying a reporter breaks news too quickly is like saying a priest is too religious. But when employees of Swedish information technology group Intentia saw a Reuters story broadcasting their third-quarter results a full hour before they were to be released, they began to lose faith in the integrity of the press. "We aren't pointing fingers," says Intentia spokesman Thomas Ahlerup...
There are signs the vatican has little tolerance for zero tolerance. The Holy See last week finally responded to the plan U.S. bishops devised in June for handling abusive priests. Rome wants "further reflection on and revision of" the proposal, which says any priest found to have ever sexually abused a minor, even once, can never minister again...