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...LIVING BIBLE (1971). Scorned by purists for taking liberties with the text, this paraphrase by Evangelical Kenneth Taylor popularizes Holy Writ. It has sold nearly 19 million copies, many of them in supermarkets and dime stores...
...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...
...Habe: writ of habeas corpus...
...mortal life is rotten for most, the soul's reward will be golden. Then too, mortal stardom as every man's dream may be the star's nightmare. As it was Gatsby's, it would later be Hollywood's. Yes, Gatsby's falling star might have seen it writ in the stars that he and his kind would pass on the dreams of America to Hollywood. The talent though not the creed would change, and the next generation of immortals might be his progeny...
From the Congo to Connemara, the lesson to Casement was writ plain. He had been raised a Protestant in Ulster, and his next cause, after retirement from the foreign service, was to be his native Ireland, the very exemplar of colonial misrule. In 1913 war clouds were lowering and, as Sinn Fein Guru Tom Clarke prophesied, "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." For years, while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World...