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...Christian, but when we got to Baghdad, I found he was no Christian. He was all Arab. When an Arab marries, he doesn't want a wife or a companion; he just wants a slave. They treat their women like dirt-worse than dirt. They slug them and spit in their faces and then go off and leave them at home while they go sit in these coffee houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand...
Increasingly, Catholic papers try to keep their readers straight on what is official and what is not. The Boston Pilot, founded in 1829, the country's oldest Catholic paper, carries an official slug over such material as pastoral letters and directives from the archbishop. At the head of its editorial page, the Indiana Catholic and Record runs a line frequently heard in Catholic journalism: "The opinions expressed [here] represent a Catholic point of view-not necessarily THE Catholic point of view...
Lubell hopes the moderates will, before too long, cast their lot with one party or the other; he does not suggest which. With the realignment completed, the two trim and muscular political forces would then slug it out. Moderate Lubell wants the moderates to win-but not until there has been a good fight. "The continuing fight-not sweetness and light-is the hallmark of the American democracy. The hidden strength of our democracy springs from the very vigor with which we battle ourselves into unity . . . The time to worry about this country is not when we are battling among...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., Cab Driver Perry Tartas reported to police that three men held him up, got away with $22 while one, left behind to finish the job, muttered before he ran to join his confederates: "I'll give you a break; I'm supposed to slug you; pretend you're hurt...
...Eugenie, the dugong [Dec. 5]. Eugenie did not survive on a diet of "clams and cucumbers," as you stated. The clams were factual enough, but the cucumbers were a reference to "sea cucumbers," which is a more common name for "trepang," more exactly denned as Holothuria edulis, a sea slug, and a pretty far cry from a genuine cucumber...