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...Galbraith has changed with the times. He said his strict Canadian upbringing guides him on the issue...
Costin's case is a more precarious one. She is not expected to swim before Thanksgiving. "We're gonna be very strict with her and not let her in the water if her back hurts." Walsh said, "But if she takes care of herself, she'll be back in the pool...it's up to her," Swimming with pain and strain much of last season, Costin had to miss a number of meets and never healed completely...
...drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis. "We show them that you can be successful and that you don't have to do it by selling drugs...
...convenient to pin the Gardner heist on a couple of guys who've been planted? Sure it does, and the FBI understandably wonders if Connor is trying to take the heat off the real thieves or simply con his way to freedom. But Connor, who lives by a strict code of criminal conduct that is essentially honor among thieves, says you help comrades in distress. By telling what he knows, maybe he can help spring his buddy Billy Youngworth, the other con who says he can get his hands on the stolen paintings--if authorities will drop a stolen-vehicle...
...year study on how to revive the old penitential practice of abstaining from meat each Friday. The bishops' pro-life committee wants the dietary regimen to serve as a silent protest against the "culture of death," especially legalized abortion and euthanasia. No meat on Fridays was long a strict church rule, observed by millions "under pain of sin." But in 1966, after the Second Vatican Council liberalized many other practices, POPE PAUL VI permitted bishops in each country to set their own dietary practices. But now Friday may once again mean fish fingers...