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W.'s growing-up experiences sparked a born-again Christianity that has led him to believe all Jews are bound for hell.
The first thing you saw was a gallery of pre-Colombian artifacts that had sparked his imagination.
All the front pages feature coverage of a bold and surprising move undertaken yesterday by the U.S. and Japan in concert: the countries' central banks bought as much as $4 billion in yen on the open market, which sparked further purchases of the Japanese currency by traders, all of which reversed the recent steep slide in the yen.
The LAT , which also fronts the story, writes that Bush's comments sparked curiosity into his activities as a young adult and debate over the press' interest in probing such issues.
This naturally has sparked a heated debate in France, where attempts to "democratize Proust" affront French custodianship of high culture.