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New York State’s Fringe Parties

Written by William Bryk on July 18, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The lesser parties also have their hopefuls. If effort counted in life, Tom Loughlin, former reporter, publisher, motorcycle racer and Independence Party county chairman from Utica, should be nominated for U.S. senator by some party–any party. God knows he has tried them all. On April 29, 2000, he sought the Libertarian nomination. Instead, they nominated
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The Civil War’s Most Inept Commander

Written by William Bryk on July 4, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Stephen Douglas Engle, Sigel’s sole biographer, wrote, "What was curious about him was not what he did, but his exalted status for what he failed to do." He was born in the German principality of Baden on Nov. 24, 1824. In 1843, Sigel graduated with honors from the Military School at Carlsruhe, received his lieutenant’s
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Ann Wroe’s Remarkable Biography of Pontius Pilate

Written by William Bryk on June 20, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Worse still, you can draw strength only from the love you bear for the institution that you serve, from your sense of its tradition, its greatness, its enduring glory. Yet the man who gave you the job is monstrous, as are most politicians: a tissue of lust rising to perversion, insecurity shading to paranoia and
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The Year 2000 UFO Abduction Conference Visits the New York Hall of Science

Written by William Bryk on June 6, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

J. Allen Hynek, PhD, an Air Force consultant, would have classified the subject of Arnold’s report as a close encounter of the first kind: the reported UFO is seen without environmental interaction. A close encounter of the second kind involves physical effects; a close encounter of the third kind involves the presence of occupants in
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Of Archbishops, Cardinals and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Written by William Bryk on May 30, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"After kissing the Pontiff’s hands and cheek…the Cardinals-elect prostrated themselves on the floor before the altar while the Pope read prayers over them. Then…the Pope recited in Latin: ‘To the praise of Almighty God and the honor of His Holy See, receive the red hat, the distinctive sign of the Cardinal’s dignity, by which is
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Yukio Mishima and the Way of the Perfect Samurai

Written by William Bryk on May 23, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

A bodybuilder for the last two decades of his life, his love of self-display crossed into exhibitionism. Thus, the beautiful, homoerotic photographs: Mishima in a fundoshi, a loincloth, kneeling in new-fallen snow with a dai katana, the great sword of a samurai, or posing as Guido Reni’s St. Sebastian (complete with arrows). He even posed
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Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Circe of the River Charles

Written by William Bryk on May 9, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Bernard Berenson, her friend and agent, called her "the Circe of the River Charles." The man whom she loved most in life, F. Marion Crawford, captured something of her appeal in the heroine of his novel To Leeward, which is based on her life: "What if her features were not quite classic in proportion?… Her
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George Lincoln Rockwell, American Fuehrer

Written by William Bryk on April 18, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Although Rockwell affected a corncob pipe, his entry was an antismoking illustration for the American Cancer Society. Rockwell believed Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s allegations of communist infiltration into the U.S. government. When recalled to active duty during the Korean War, he studied communism in the San Diego Public Library, where he found the Western powers’ contemporary
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More Catholic Than the Pope

Written by William Bryk on April 4, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

For the people in the pews, the most important change involved the Mass, the center of Catholic worship. The Mass is not a communion service, a reenactment, a commemoration or a symbolic performance. To believers, it is literally the sacrifice of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Savior of the World:
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Hilaire Belloc’s Prolific Life

Written by William Bryk on March 21, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Belloc’s luck at cards running out at Cincinnati, he hopped freights or walked. Six months after leaving England, he knocked on the Hogans’ door in Napa: "…like one who brings his merchandise to Californian skies." Mrs. Hogan was having nothing of it. Miss Hogan was terrified with joy. She was of medium height, with a
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