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...boys had left a trail. They had a small doorknob collection in a kitchen drawer, not to mention closets stuffed with dirt-encrusted lacrosse sticks and even a skateboard. In the closet down-stairs, we found a piece of paper with "The Game Guy's Prayer" on it, reading "Dear God: Help me to be a sport in this little game of life. I don't ask for any easy place in the line-up; play me anywhere you need me...." Another sign on the wall read: "Many people miss opportunity when it comes disguised as hard work." Their jock...
When Mir Aimal Kansi heard a soft knock on his hotel-room door at 4 a.m. last Sunday, he thought it was a call to prayer. Like most observant Muslims, Kansi prays five times a day, beginning at around 4:30 a.m. And certainly Kansi had a lot weighing on his soul. An accused killer, he was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, and had been on the run for four years. Now he was holed up in the Shalimar Hotel, a seedy establishment in Dera Ghazi Khan, a city in central Pakistan. He groggily opened his door...
...London, Oppenheimer infiltrated a group dedicated to using prayer and electroshock therapy to turn gay men straight. Posing as the group's security coordinator, he managed to help sabotage a conference by releasing locusts and flies in the church which hosted the event...
...cartoonist and cover artist. The other literary forms of the time included richly inventive graffiti ("Henry VII Is Insatiable") and the bulletin-board memos of Elliot Perkins, the with master of Lowell House, who wrote with a graceful elegance that suggested The New Yorker and the Book of Common Prayer rolled into...
...insist that sicknesses be treated with prayer alone is stubborn willfulness; to impose such conditions on children should be considered criminal. But Pennsylvania, where the Nixon children died, and 45 other states have religious exemptions in their child-abuse and -neglect laws, denying the 14th Amendment right, equal protection under the law, to children of members of the Faith Tabernacle, the Christian Science Church and various other sects. When child-protection groups have petitioned legislatures to remove these exemptions, the legislators have bowed to church lobbying and refused. If parents of children dead for lack of medical care have "suffered...