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...Redeemer. According to Matthew, a Jewish mob cried, "His blood be on us and on our children" while demanding the death of Jesus. And centuries of Christians would oblige them with massacres and persecutions, pogroms and expulsions of "Christ killers" and the depredations of the Inquisition, laying groundwork for the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish passions came not only from misinterpreters of faith but from the spiritual authorities themselves, from John Chrysostom, from Thomas Aquinas -- both saints of Christendom -- indeed, from Martin Luther, who turned against the Jews after they spurned his reformed Christianity...
...fanatical, single-minded, remarkable and uncomfortably aware of the philosophical contradictions involved in their arranging a visit by their capitalist archenemy." Is this an exasperated Warren Christopher Justifying his recent, failed, diplomatic mission to China? No, these were Henry Kissinger's findings over 20 years ago while laying the groundwork for president Nixon's historic visit...
...Wall in collaboration with his wife, McElwee had the opportunity to see the reality these filmmakers document. "There's a strong documentary tradition in Eastern Europe that informs the fiction film making....A lot of it is hand-held work....They look to reality, in a way, for the groundwork....for their films, more so than American film makers...
...bill to ban their sale, manufacture and possession. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy to his successor. "I don't see any reason at all why anyone should have a handgun," he says...
...Andrew Sullivan's obvious superiority in debate. During his undergraduate days, he was president of the Oxford Union, a world-class debating society, and he was comfortable with the fast-paced interactive nature of the event. Mansfield was far less at ease, insisting on fully establishing the philosophical groundwork of one point before moving to the next...