Most Western thinking about military ethics has its roots in Augustine, the sainted Christian writer from North Africa whose elaborate theory of "just warfare" has provided a framework for debate over the 16 centuries since his death.
IN AN op-ed in the Washington Post, Jim DeMint and Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation desecrate the methods of sound social science as well as the memory of the sainted dead.
The other is "Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)", in which an El Greco-inspired farrago of figures surround a seemingly sainted hero swaddled in white and kissed to heaven by a prostitute.In February 1901 Casagemas had returned to Paris alone and shot himself in front of the woman who had jilted him.
The sainted Alf Ramsey did not find his best formation in 1966 until the quarter-finals of the tournament, his hand forced by Jimmy Greaves' injury.
His great niece Caroline Robinson, 49, said she was molested twice by her uncle who was regarded in the family as an unchallengeable and sainted figure.
Charismatic in life, she was sainted in death.
The title of "The Lonesome West," which is part of another trilogy, this one set in the Connemara village of Leenane during the early nineteen-nineties, comes from a line in Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World": "There's sainted glory this day in the lonesome west".
In boycotting the 2010 election, her party, the National League for Democracy, had frustrated young activists, and she was at risk of becoming sainted but peripheral.
Around the same time of that car ride, we now know from Posnanski, Scott Paterno tried to get his father to read the presentment, and the once sainted JoePa resisted, failing to see the big picture.
By that heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore".
By vocation, he was neither a sainted artist like Havel nor a politician who happens to write well, like Obama, but a full-time scribe and part-time don, a man who made his living by selling bits and pieces of his mind and his memory.
