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...into the hall in her slippers. She smiles, nods and retreats. Maria shouts upstairs to see who is home. "You won't meet him. He'll be out drinking until late." She calls to her sister in Spanish. Cara, the youngest, comes downstairs in her pajamas and greets the stranger politely, as Maria's eyes suddenly shine with a prospective joke: "Cara," she says, "this is your real father...
...bold stranger was an FBI agent named Pat Collins. Sitting down with Dellacroce, he began a slow courtship, gradually winning him over by convincing the wary Mafia leader that a private relationship with the federal authorities would not be a bad insurance policy in a high-risk career...
Harvard itself is no stranger to comeback victories. The Crimson staged its greatest fourth quarter rally ever last week at Holy Cross, scoring 21 points in 41 seconds to defeat the Cross...
...fourth roommate, Ellen L. Cox, then came out of her bedroom and saw a stranger standing in the common room. She said he asked for John Stubbs, a Weld proctor, and then left...
...scriptural authority for giving Sanctuary to the refugees, Christian activists sometimes cite Leviticus 19: 34: "The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself." The concept of asylum flourished in the Middle Ages, when churches and monasteries sheltered most criminals from their pursuers for up to 40 days, until the fugitive chose either exile or surrender to civil authority. The 19th century U.S. underground railroad, which smuggled slaves from the South to safety, could be regarded as a unique American application of the biblical injunction. Sanctuary supporters...