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Debbie Morris, real-life survivor of 'Dead Man Walking,' tells story in book:R.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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FORT WORTH, Texas _ Debbie Morris had a story to tell, too.
Sister Helen Prejean had seen that clearly when the two women met in 1995 for the first time. Prejean's book on her relationship with two Louisiana Death Row inmates, Robert Lee Willie and Patrick Sonnier, had been in stores for two years. Tim Robbins' film starring Susan Sarandon as Prejean and Sean Penn as a composite of both men had been released only weeks before.
No one had contacted Morris, though her testimony 15 years before had sealed Willie's fate. Now, ``Dead Man Walking'' was ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1958: New Pope Is John XXIII
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; ...s Square and joy throughout Italy. The new Pope chose the name of John XXIII. He was the second to use it, for Baldassare Cossa, a Neapolitan who claimed to be Pope from 1410 to 1415, also used it. By going back to a name which, in Catholic...
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Typography Papers 6.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...inscriptions, including most of those that we think we already know in detail (such as the tomb of Martin V and Baldassare Cossa). Mosley's essay on Cresci is an extension of "Trajan Revived" (Alphabet 1964), the first--and still...
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Medici men in suits Even bankers could be Renaissance men, says Paul Strathern
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...diocese even paid in whalebones). The Medici first gained the papal account by financing the disreputable ex-pirate Baldassare Cossa, a gamble which paid off when he became Pope Giovanni XXIII. Transmitting large sums of money from northern Europe...
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De varietate fortunae.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...first half of the Quattrocento, which gave vent to Poggio's hatred and biting criticism of his betes noires, Baldassare Cossa (later Pope John XXIII), Eugenius IV, and most of all, the brutal soldier-cleric, Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi...
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LETTERS: your views.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...the latter taking the title in order to somewhat mask the misdeeds of the former. The first John XXIII, known as Baldassare Cossa, before putting on the Fisherman's ring and sitting on St Peter's chair, made his crust in a rather unusual...
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