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...nonbelievers. Church fathers (by now influential Romans themselves) assigned the villain's role in the Crucifixion to the Jews rather than to Rome. As Europe was unified under the Cross, the Jews, preserved yet ghettoized per Augustine's instructions, became the Continent's captive "other," slaughtered as a warm-up for Muslims in the First Crusade and as scapegoats during the Black Death. Whereas church historians--and philosopher Hannah Arendt in the 1950s--distinguished between Catholic anti-Judaism and the racial anti-Semitism of the 20th century, Carroll maintains that the demarcation first collapsed far earlier, when the Spanish Inquisition...
...Governor, Jeb was a smirk-free policy wonk, working from dawn till dusk with no breaks for video games or naps. Yet he became a warm-up act, introducing W. as "my older, smarter and wiser brother." Sometimes appearing disengaged in the campaign, he volunteered to reporters, "You know, George doesn't have to win Florida to win the election," as if the pressure to produce were misplaced. During the final push, Jeb dodged inquiries about his effort by saying how much he loved his brother. W. joked that if Jeb didn't deliver, he'd "be washing...
...votes had been counted - and to start immediate p.r. preparations for the long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James Baker answered moments later by saying: "At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point...
...really good warm-up and came into the match really confident," said sophomore outside hitter Liz Cebron. "It took us losing the first game to realize that we had to step up our efforts...
...fancy boredom of the so-called life of the mind to be standing on a pedestal, mouthing the words to the National Anthem? Forget the Olympics. Would you not be ecstatic simply to be an athlete living young, beginning every morning by climbing into some garish warm-up suit and preposterously engineered running shoes and going higher, faster, stronger...