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Cindy, raised a Roman Catholic, told him she did. Frankel shook his head. "How can you believe?" asked the man who had once established a phony Catholic charitable organization, the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation, in the hope of legitimizing his fraudulent operations...
...your listing of key issues facing Syria [WORLD, Oct. 18], you noted, "In talks with Israel, Syria seeks [water] rights to Lake Tiberius and the Jordan River." The correct name is Lake Tiberias, as it is named after the famous ancient city of Tiberias and not after Tiberius the Roman Emperor. Most readers may be more familiar with the name Sea of Galilee. It is also called Lake of Gennesar in ancient sources, after the settlement on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Galilee. If names mean anything, then these clearly connect this body of water with geographic areas...
...Kirshner argues, the discoverer of elliptical orbits and other astronomers may have dabbled in astronomy only when forced to do so by the zodiacally-inclined emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Nor was this phenomenon unique to Western cultures. "For instance, in the Court of China," Kirshner says, "the emperor believed in astrology. And it is documented that people studied the stars as a means of forecasting war, pestilence, or worst of all: a change in the emperor...
Sharpton's record, littered with lies, bigotry and intentional fanning of the flames of violence, has not changed over time. Just last year, Sharpton supported and then spoke on the stage of a hate rally in Harlem featuring Khalid Muhammed, whose bigoted remarks about "faggots," Roman Catholics, their "cracker" Pope and "peckerwood Jesus" and the "hook-nosed, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud so-called Jew" were too much even for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, which fired him as spokesperson. The rally ended with--what else?--a riot...
...appointment was a step toward diversity--Hehir is the first Roman Catholic to lead the Divinity School. But out of the 14 people who have headed the Divinity School since 1819, according to the school's news office, none have been women...