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...oldest specimen in the current Vatican exhibit is a Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum that dates from the late 8th century and establishes regulations, worthy of the Pentagon, for the preparation and maintenance of ecclesiastical documents. But the exact origin of the Vatican Archives is unknown. As early as 303 Emperor Diocletian decreed that everything accumulated until that time be destroyed. In 410 the Visigoths stormed Rome, and the city burned for three days. The Vandals sacked it in 455, the Saracens...
Betsy was the first to take flight into stardom, making her first Nationals in 1975 in the 100 fly. By the next summer she had dropped enough time to take 8th place in the same event, and then she went on to cop fourth place in the 200-meter fly a month later at the Olympic Trials...
...have been prepared to bring in heating oil since September 8th," Kennedy says, "But we were tied up because Washington would not approve the state's plan. And the refinery would not give us back our oil without a letter of credit from the state. Because of bureaucratic delays, the price we can bring our heating oil in for has risen by one million dollars," he adds. "the only thing I like about Ronald Reagan is he says he is going to get after bureaucrats," Kennedy adds. "If this is the case...
...Saturday night, November 8th, a group of women and their supporters will march to "take back the night". This effort is an expression of women's anger at the rape and other forms of violence which daily threaten their lives. Every woman is a victim of rape, because every woman must structure her life so as to avoid it. The powerlessness which women feel when walking alone at night reflects the powerlessness which women experience in every aspect of our society...
...glanced at me, saying nothing, then faced the blank rear wall of the car and remained in that position until I got off at my 8th-floor office...