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U.S. Supreme Court FRANCIS v. FRANKLIN, 471 U.S. 307 (1985) 471 U.S. 307
FRANCIS, WARDEN v. FRANKLIN CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPE...
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What happened to Steve Francis? It depends on who you ask.
Francis' publicist will be the first to tell you about his charity, The Steve Francis Foundation. She'll direct you to his website and offer to send you details on his upcoming basketball camp, the foundation's scholarship program and the constant presence Francis has in the community.
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LINCOLN - , 83, passed into eternal life, Oct. 25, 2011, at Colonial Healthcare, Lincoln. George was born Jan. 11, 1928, in Millinocket, the son of Frank and Florence Hodgkins Worcester.
George was one of nine children. George attended school in Millinocket and then entered the work force early on in life. He then served in the U.S. Navy Sea Bees in California and Guam and was a veteran of World War II. After returning to Lincoln, he married his wife of 61 years, Eleanor Jordan Worcester. He then began working at Worcester Bros., a family business right here in town as an oil burner technician, a job he held for about 50 years. George was a lifelong member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, and member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Congregational Church and Congo Men's Cl...
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St. Francis Medical Center will be the starting point for a new partnership between Centura Health, St. Francis' parent company, and the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
The agreement announced Thursday is a letter of intent to explore potential collaborations to improve access to pediatric services in southern Colorado. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and its sister hospitals in Pueblo and Canon City currently treat more than 25,000 pediatric patients a year and, said Penrose-St. Francis CEO Margaret Sabin, St. Francis was built with a focus on pediatric services in mind.
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, 92, of St. John's Herr Estate, Columbia passed away on Thursday, July 14, 2011. He was the husband of the late Anne B. Gillespie who passed away on March 21, 2008. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of the late Francis and May McIntyre Gillespie. He was an instrument engineer having worked for Johnson Service at atomic power plants and in refineries in the Middle East. He was a veteran of the US Army serving during WWII. He enjoyed sail boats, having sailed numerous trips from Maine to the Bahamas and Bermuda. He also enjoyed farming, building houses and agriculture.
He is survived by three sons: Francis, III husband of Kay Gillespie, Fort Collins, CO; Roderick Gillespie, Scotland and Keith husband of Annette Gillespie, York. Eight grandchildren. Seven great- grand...
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A finales de agosto del año pasado cerca de 500 estudiantes iniciaron las clases en la nueva escuela Saint Francis International School de Maryland. El reto de alumnos, profesores, padres de familia y religiosos era realizar el máximo esfuerzo académico para seguir manteniendo la educación católica en el grado de la excelencia a principios del siglo XXI.
Tobias Harkleroad, director de St. Francis International School, dijo sentirse orgulloso del esfuerzo realizado por todos los alumnos durante el primer año de la escuela, en especial los integrantes de la primera promoción. "El entusiasmo y el esfuerzo de los muchachos es digno de destacar. Todos los objetivos académicos trazados para el año 2010-2011 se han cumplido a cabalidad".
El director Harkleroad manifestó que los alumnos fueron ...
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Humana, a Lexington, Ky.-based company that provides Medicare supplement plans, will no longer pay for medical visits and care at Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston and Saint Francis Hospital in Charleston after Feb. 1.
Stephen P. Dexter, CEO of the Thomas Health System, found out about Humana's decision Dec. 6, when he received a letter, dated Nov. 30, from Beverly Steen, Humana's director of contracting.
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St. Francis coach Jerry Smith is used to it.
His team played big, bad defending state champion Aquinas even for a half while Boston College-bound Akeel Lynch ran for a ridiculous 239 yards. That's right, he did that in the first half. Lynch suffered an ankle injury before halftime and he was held out of the rest of the game as a precaution. It was a one-touchdown lead for host Aquinas for much of the second half before they won, 34-20.
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Late in the summer of 1219, Francis of Assisi crossed enemy lines during the Fifth Crusade, hoping that he could convert Egypt's Sultan Malik al-Kamil to Christianity, Francis, who had begun his ministry after recovering from the trauma of a horrific battlefield experience and imprisonment, hoped to end the violence of the Crusade by winning over the sultan. Less plausible is the confrontational scenario that St. Bonaventure presents in The Major Legend of Saint Francis, written more than forty years after the event and heavily influenced by the Franciscan order's need at the time to fend off a heresy scandal. (The sultan offered the Crusaders control of Jerusalem, which his uncle, Saladin, had re-conquered in 1187, in return for ending the siege of Damietta.) Cardinal Pelagius warned...