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...Phelps, 75, has led his family in campaigns against everyone from "sodomites" and "fag enablers" to victims of 9/11. More recently the Phelpses initiated a referendum on the March 1 ballot that would prohibit laws protecting gay rights. The family is also supporting one of Fred's 53 grandchildren, Jael Phelps, 20, a prim nursing student who once picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, in her run against city councilwoman Tiffany Muller, 26, who co-sponsored a law late last year that shields gays from discrimination in city hiring. Since there are two other contenders in the race, Jael is given...
...ignored evidence that might have swayed the jury: a clipping of a comic-strip version of an Old Testament episode that Little had used as a bookmark in her Bible, which was found after the killing. The clipping, which prosecutors insist they have never seen, showed an Israelite woman, Jael, luring an enemy into her tent, then driving a nail into his head while he slept. The fact that the prosecution did not use the strip, contended Paul, a persistent court critic, only bolstered his cynicism. Given an undistinguished prosecutor and a clever defense attorney with money, a trial, Paul...
Vigorously "Pa" Rolfe winds up the story of Jael and Sisera...
...lifted up the hammer, and she smote with might and main And hit the nail and drove it smack through the sleeper's brain. The moral of this story of Sisera and Jael: You can never trust a woman with a hammer and a nail...
...clock this evening, in Sever Hall, Mr. Copeland will read from the King James version of the Old Testament. The selections will consist in part of the chapters containing the story of Rebekah; the death of Absalom, and David's lament; the murder of Sisera, by Jael, and the Lyrio celebration of that murder in the Song of Deborah. The reading will be open to members of the University only...