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...Connecticut and Rhode Island have followed the easiest course by simply turning their 17th century charters into state constitutions, declaring that their governments derive authority from the people rather than the King...
...worst offender. Among the 17 members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is tied for twelfth place with Japan (both countries devote 0.25% of their gross national product to such projects). Sweden is first (0.72%). The unchallenged occupants of 17th and last place are the Swiss (0.14%), even though they rank as the richest people among the world's industrialized countries, with a per capita income...
...theology is somewhat more complicated than that, and the theology is inextricably intertwined with the movement's history. Its basic beliefs-a personal involvement with Christ, the supreme authority of the infallible Scripture, and voluntary baptism, usually by full immersion-grew out of the nonconformist Puritanism of the 17th century. John Bunyan was a Baptist and "preached what I felt and what I smartingly did feel, even under that which my poor soul did groan and tremble to astonishment." The first Baptist church in America was founded in Providence in 1639 by Roger Williams, who had been recently expelled...
...show illustrates how immaterial the distinction the West draws between art and craft was in traditional Japanese culture: a kosode, or small-sleeved robe - like the 17th century garment in two colors of figured satin, the jagged yellow sheet sweeping diagonally upward across its black ground - is as satisfying a work of art as any scroll or painted screen. Some kimono are filmy and almost blank, with patterns and emblems grouped in small areas. Others, like the takarazukushi, or "myriad treasures" robes, swarming with thousands of embroidered good-luck symbols, look thick enough to stand up on their...
...17th novel, Author Peter De Vries, 56, again shows that he is more than a match for the absurdities of modern life. Give him the latest fad, the most flaccidly permissive excuse for current thought, and he will top it nearly every time. With-it Protestantism? De Vries offers a minister who does impressions of movie stars from the pulpit and later throws a brunch at the "Après Church." The new amorality? He comes up with a mother who boasts that her unmarried daughter is having "one of those no-fault pregnancies." The macho style in Washington politics...