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• Top baker's campaign to change a deadly sin | France's best-known baker, Lionel Poilâne, wrote to the Vatican seeking to change the French word used for the deadly sin of gluttony before he died in a helicopter crash three months ago (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Why athletes sometimes act as if God has a rooting interest | Crediting divine intervention for that home run, touchdown, basket and knockout has become as much a custom as the pregame chalk talk (The New York Times)
  
  
• Black churches: Excavate mall site | Leaders of the city's two oldest black congregations have joined in calling for an excavation of the home site of James Dexter, a former slave and a founder of the nation's first African American human-rights group (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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