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  Paul Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Paul Joseph James Martin, a francophone of half Irish and half French descent, served thirty-three years as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and was a cabinet minister in four Liberal governments.
Martin has stated that there has to have been political direction but denies involvement in, or knowledge of, the sponsorship contracts, and has called a public inquiry into what has come to be known as the Sponsorship Scandal.
Martin telephoned Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, and informed her that he is going to resign as Prime Minister of Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Martin   (3912 words)

  
 Paul Joseph James Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin was viewed as one of the most left-wing members of the Liberal cabinet, and as Minister of National Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957 he played an important role in the fight against polio and overseeing the creation of hospital insurance in Canada, and is sometimes recognized as a father of medicare.
Paul Joseph James Martin is the father of Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, who also served as an MP and Cabinet Minister.
Paul "Jr." contested the leadership of the Liberal party twice, in 1990 and 2003 and served as Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Martin,_Sr.   (441 words)

  
 Paul Martin
His father, Paul Joseph James Martin, served 33 years as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and was a cabinet minister in four Liberal governments.
Paul Martin's bid to replace Chrétien was successful and on September 21, 2003 he secured 92% of the party delegates from across the country.
Martin denies involvement or knowledge of it, and has called a public inquiry into what has come to be known as the Sponsorship Scandal.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_martin.html   (1113 words)

  
 Martin, Paul Joseph James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Martin, Paul Joseph James, politician, statesman (b at Ottawa 23 June 1903; d at Windsor 14 Sept 1992).
Martin ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal leadership in 1948 and 1958.
In 1963 PM PEARSON appointed Martin secretary of state for external affairs, a portfolio he held until 1968, when he tried again for the leadership but lost to Pierre TRUDEAU.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005134   (216 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography Ma-Mo
When J. James, registrar of the university, died in 1864, Madden carried on his duties for a short period and was an unsuccessful applicant for the vacant position.
Martin was a competent journalist of some influence in the early literary life of Melbourne.
In November 1873, on the retirement of Sir Alfred Stephen (q.v.), Martin was given the position of chief justice and filled it admirably, though towards the end of his life his duties were sometimes interrupted by ill health.
gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogMa-Mo.html   (20734 words)

  
 Martin, Paul --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Martin served with distinction in the Cabinets of four Liberal party prime ministers (from Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau) and, as minister of national health and welfare from 1946 to 1957, was instrumental in writing most of the country's social legislation.
On Nov. 14, 2003, Paul Martin was chosen at the Toronto convention of the governing Liberal Party to succeed Jean Chrétien as prime minister of Canada.
Martin, who headed a multinational shipping company and had also served as one of the most successful ministers of finance (1993–2002) in Canada's history, took office on December 12.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312372   (796 words)

  
 Bios Day 1
Helen F. James is Museum Specialist in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory, where he has taught paleoecology and investigated Late Quaternary environmental change since 1957.
Martin is best known for his theory of prehistoric overkill, a pattern of global extinction over the last 40,000 years apparently coinciding with human colonizations spreading out of Africa and Asia.
www.amnh.org /science/biodiversity/extinction/Day1/Bios.html   (3423 words)

  
 PAL: Henry James (1843-1916)
In The Art of Fiction, James writes, "A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life." With this quotation as your point of reference, analyze the particular "impression" James is trying to create in Daisy Miller, The Real Thing, or The Beast in the Jungle.
James has often been called a psychological realist, more interested in the development of consciousness than in portraying character types and social reality.
James perfected the use of point of view as a narrative device.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap5/james.html   (1297 words)

  
 James Joyce Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy.
James Joyce's father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was a Cork man who had inherited enough property to ensure a comfortable living from rents, but his alcoholism led to a seemingly endless series of disasters which drove the family to abject poverty by the time young Joyce was mature.
Young James was his father's favorite; he in turn seemed to forgive his father's weaknesses.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/joyce.j.html   (1734 words)

  
 james mirtle - A hockey journalist's blog
And, don't look now, but Martin Brodeur has been one of the league's top netminders with a 1.60 goals-against average in that span.
A sportswriter and editor with The Globe and Mail, James has also written about hockey for the National Post, The Hockey News, McKeen's Hockey and a handful of other Canadian newspapers.
A graduate of Ryerson University's grad school of journalism, James is originally from Kamloops, one of Canada's great hockey cities.
mirtle.blogspot.com   (4215 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Paul Martin -- The chosen one
Martin's intentions became obvious when he hired a new senior political adviser and openly campaigned for rule changes that would affect a leadership race.
Later that month, when Martin told reporters he was considering his political options, the dissent became too much for the prime minister.
Martin acknowledges his difficulty, but says he's ready for the chance to prove himself.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1068664462614_64073662?hub=TopStories   (1554 words)

  
 eightyford.com » Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His father, Paul Joseph James Martin, served thirty-three years as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and was a cabinet minister in four Liberal governments.
Martin has been criticized for failing to reach a foreign-aid target of 0.7 per cent of GDP, despite much rhetoric that he favored an increase in foreign aid after the cut-backs of the 1990s.
Martin later responded that many foreign leaders were making pledges that he viewed as too fanciful, his government had set a more modest, but clearly attainable goal.
eightyford.com /archives/category/life   (4111 words)

  
 Changing World Chapter 4
When Joseph found this stone, there was a company digging in Harmony, Pa., and they took Joseph to look in the stone for them, and he did so for a while, and then he told them the enchantment was so strong that he could not see, and they gave it up....
Joseph would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.
Joseph Fielding Smith, the tenth president of the Mormon church, admitted that the "seer stone" was sometimes called the Urim and Thummim: "The statement has been made that the Urim and Thummim was on the altar in the Manti Temple when that building was dedicated.
www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/changech4.htm   (8631 words)

  
 Paul
Paul, The Man and The Teacher in the Light of Jewish Sources, Risto Santala, trans Michael G. Cox.
Paul: "Better to Marry than to Burn," from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible, by Ronald L. Ecker.
"The Enthymeme as an Element of Styoe in Paul," Paul A. Holloway, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001.
www.textweek.com /pauline/paul.htm   (1021 words)

  
 Joseph (1995) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
'Joseph' captures the power, pathos, and splendor of the greatest of Bible characterizations--Joseph, the hated brother, becomes not only lord over his entire family, but the second most powerful man in the ancient world.
Ben Kingsley, as he did in 'Moses', and Martin Landau (as Jacob) steal the show, but Paul Mercurio does an admirable job as the main character.
I watched 'Joseph' with my middle school students, and as they busily synthesized their thirty or so 'characteristics of a role model' into an essay, one of them asked why there were no such heroes today.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0113483   (523 words)

  
 Amazon.com: PAUL: A Novel: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As Paul, writer of some of the meatiest chunks of the New Testament and zealous missionary to the Gentiles, he became one of the most controversial figures in history.
It is seen through the eyes of the witnesses--Priscilla, who meets Paul in Corinth; Barnabus, Timothy, and Titus, his companions; James and Simon Peter, the "pillar" of the first Christians; and Seneca, the great Roman writer, statesman, and adviser to Nero.
Paul is shown to be a man of tremndous faith and energy of spirit, even if his body was weak and frail.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0310243165?v=glance   (2012 words)

  
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It is probable that St. Paul refers to him when he writes from Rome to Timothy, "Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren salute thee" (2 Tim., 4:21).
Anicetus died a martyr and was buried on the Vatican.
Paul of Samosata, who incongruously combined the offices of bishop of Antioch and treasurer of the civil government, taught that Jesus was not true God.
www.ewtn.com /library/CHRIST/POPES.TXT   (22289 words)

  
 United Press International - Life & Mind - Commentary: 'James, brother of Jesus'?
That James was the son of Joseph of Nazareth isn't in dispute, Meier told UPI.
A version favored by Protestants is that James was a younger brother of Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph.
The interpretation dominant in Eastern and Orthodox circles is that James was the son of Joseph by a previous marriage.
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021025-064557-3698r   (3275 words)

  
 The Basilian Newsletter - 31 May 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Also professed that year were Rocco Carmelo Volpe, John Thomas Kelly, James Gareth Poupore, Robert William Crooker, William Hilary O'Brien, David Gordon Heath, Eugene Thomas O'Reilly and the late Joseph James Edward Daley, Michael Alphonsus Goetz, Norman Martin Iversen, Patrick Francis McCabe, Paul Joseph Meloche, Robert Alphonse Hall.
John was ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1956 in St. Basil's Church, Toronto by James Cardinal McGuigan.
James E. Martin CSB, former pastor of St. John the Baptist.
www.basilian.org /Publica/Newslet/1995/1995May31.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Paul Joseph James Martin --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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U.S. dance critic and author John Joseph Martin, dance critic of The New York Times from 1927 to 1962, championed the modern dance movement.
Martin almost ignored the formal aspect of dance in favor of emphasizing its role as a physical expression of inner emotion.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000996   (658 words)

  
 John Joseph Martin --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Martin was born in Louisville, Ky., on June 2, 1893.
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Along with James Kent of New York, Story is considered the founder of equity jurisprudence in the United States.
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 Letter From A Birmigham Jail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This response was to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Milton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray.
Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while Martin was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly Black trusty, and concluded on a pad Martin's attorneys were eventually permitted to leave.
They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering, and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer.
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 Review: Torque   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It isn't as enjoyable as the first Paul Walker racing romp, but it maintains a pulse, a characteristic that does not apply to the stillborn sequel.
Meanwhile, all he wants to do is clear his name of a wrongful drug charge and reunite with the Love of His Life, Shane (Monet Mazur, who's pretty good until she tries to utter a line of the so-called dialogue).
First-time director Joseph Kahn understands that the appeal of the movie isn't the actors, but the machines they're sitting on.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/torque.html   (568 words)

  
 James Francis Joseph Hand
Like all of his brothers, took the name Joseph at confirmation in honor of his paternal grandfather.
This originated from his custom of signing "James Hand, Himself" to letters written to solvers of the Sword in the Stone puzzle (or confused attempters, appealing for help).
Persons who solve the Sword in the Stone are initiated into an informal organization known as the Keepers of the Secret, and once joined to the group, each member merits the "Himself" or "Herself" appellation.
www.diplom.org /manus/tree?person=FF   (604 words)

  
 Sobering Thoughts
Also, I should have said that Paul Zed's Saint John seat is safe for the Liberals, not that Saint John will keep the riding of Paul Zed.
CTV reports that Paul Martin is hammering away at the Tories over the abortion issue.
Libin says that Don Martin denied the story because he wanted to suck up to the PMO because he thought that the Liberals were going to win re-election and he didn't want to lose his sources.
www.soberingthoughts.blogspot.com   (3899 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
In addition, University President Paul Zingg was quoted saying the school would shut down its Greek system if problems with hazing did not abate.
Zingg made his comments to a group of 850 students and others, and his remarks were quoted in the local media.
Martin Wooster: The Pew Center isn't benign, neutral or beyond partisan politics.
www.opinionjournal.com /best?id=110006503   (1967 words)

  
 Patio Pundit
Paul Krugman invokes cartooning blogger Tom Tomorrow to link Bush's tax cuts to medicare shortages.
You know Paul Krugman couldn't pass up the opportunity to bash Bush on the aborted coup in Venezuela.
Paul Greenberg - writes about the murder of Gus Artemakis, proprietor of the D&D diner on Main Street in downtown Little Rock
patiopundit.blogspot.com   (13887 words)

  
 Composer [Paul Hayes] / CMC
Paul Hayes was born in Dublin and studied composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with James Wilson and at University College Dublin with Seóirse Bodley.
Paul Hayes currently lives in Japan and many of his recent works have been written for and performed by Japanese performers and ensembles.
These include Etain (1997) for viola and electronics; In the Shadow of Frescati (1999) for voice and tape; and a song cycle, Red Ears in the Evening Sun (1999), for voice and piano, commissioned by Makiko Kotaka and Shuko Kato and performed at Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo, in 2000.
www.cmc.ie /composers/composer.cfm?composerID=59   (248 words)

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