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Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
...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...
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...