Colonists John Cotton, Richard Mather and John Eliot, who wrote the book, wanted a version of the psalms which they believed was closer to the original Hebrew than the ones they had brought with them from England.

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New York Republican Gubernatorial candidate John Faso has an uphill battle against New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who won fame by portraying himself as the scourge of evildoers on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms.

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