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...Winter Olympics are inaugurated in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. The U.S. garners three gold medals and finishes an unofficial third, behind Sweden and Switzerland. During the Games, Dick Button '52 becomes the first American to win a figure skating title. The Summer Olympics, held between July 29 and August 14 in London, ended more favorably for the U.S. team. They claimed the unofficial team championship, winning 33 gold medals...
Faye Yager is a saint for helping Ellen Dever and other refugees like her. I pray that Dever and her daughters can lead a peaceful life somewhere without Shah's interference. TIME, however, has made this all the more difficult by publishing photos of his daughters and their mother, giving Shah, for free, assistance that even his money couldn't buy! NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Denville...
This was not, however, a case where local lawmen winked and looked the other way. Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general and patron saint of the K.K.K., charged 14 Klansmen with murder and arson. Five were convicted or pleaded guilty and received life sentences. But not Sam Bowers, the Klan's Imperial Wizard for Mississippi, whom prosecutors accused of ordering and planning the murder--and whom Klan experts describe as the most dangerous man ever to don a white hood...
...Moody makes very clear in the first short chapter of the novel, is a hero, "and if he's a hero, then heroes are five-and-dime, and the world is as crowded with them as it is with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical...
...ever evolving set of our circumstances." His book adapts and interprets these truths for all parishioners. And he adds the welcomed reassurance that "We have no right to expect all of you to become like Mother Theresa." In instructing how to be a Christian without being a saint, Gomes writes about the universal struggle that puts spirituality at something more than familiarity with the Bible: "In an anonymous and indifferent world, it is...our hope to make something more of our time here than mere survival or existence...