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‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’: Not For Entertainment Purposes Only
The movie will not be a blockbuster, bringing in only $17 million at last count, after five weeks. I have heard the complaints about Paul, Apostle of Christ.
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The movie will not be a blockbuster, bringing in only $17 million at last count, after five weeks. I have heard the complaints about Paul, Apostle of Christ.
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Barbara Bush was laid to rest in Houston on Saturday. Here in Maine, a memorial service for Mrs. Bush will take place in Kennebunkport, a spot she and her husband put on the map as its long-time summer residents. Barbara Bush meant so much to Maine, from her folksy ways
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has "doubled down" on his call for increased government regulation of Facebook, Recode reports, teasing an interview with Cook that aired Friday, April 6 on MSNBC. Cook had already publicly called for a government crackdown on Facebook once before, telling an audience in Beijing,
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Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented
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Arrests are ugly. When they include physical confrontation, they're uglier. But it's no good to just say you disagree with what Cambridge cops did the other night when confronted with an agitated naked man in a street. You must also say what you would have done
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Columns in the New York Times style section do get your attention. I'll give them that. Like the one last November, written by a professor who justified her role as a homewrecker seducing a married man – titled "An Optimist Guide to Divorce." I disagreed with her
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On September 11, 1960, with nearly one hundred like-minded intellectual activists and agitators in the living room of his Sharon, Connecticut home, William F. Buckley Jr. created Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), his third seminal contribution to conservatism, after having written God and Man at Yale (1951) and having founded
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal, is commonly used to refer to the problem of how one monitors the actions of persons in positions of power. It means literally: Who will guard the guards? Example: We don't know
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