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...focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentrée, Yasmina Reza's L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night) is about Sarkozy's recent electoral campaign. Another standout, Olivier Adam's A l'Abri de Rien (In the Shelter of Nothing), concerns immigrants at the notorious Sangatte refugee camp. France's Japan-influenced bandes dessinées (comic-strip) artists have made their country a leader in one of literature's hottest genres: the graphic novel. Singers like Camille, Benjamin Biolay and Vincent Delerm have...
...Jantzen (149 lbs.) held senior Jason Holder to the mat early, pinning him in 39 seconds. O’Donnell—ranked No. 20 nationally by themat.com in the 165-lbs. class—dominated sophomore Ben Schillens, 9-0. Lee won by one point over senioir Ali Abri, and Jones won a close match over senior Bryon Nelson...
Undaunted by the signficant weight difference, Kiler's toughness on the mats earned him a 7-5 victory over Ali Abri, one of the Terriers best wrestlers...
DIED. Francis Schaeffer, 72, Christian theologian and a leading scholar of evangelical Protestantism; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Schaeffer, a Philadelphia-born Presbyterian, and his wife in 1955 founded L'Abri (French for "the shelter"), a chalet in the Swiss Alps known among students and intellectuals for a reasoned rather than emotional approach to religious counseling. His 23 philosophical books include the bestseller How Should We Then Live...
...Abri's message is a Christianity that the world has forgotten. It is a Christianity which accepts the Bible as truly the Word of God but does not accept that truth in order to neglect the tangible problems of he world. In the process, L' Abri rejects and transcends the position of most 20th-century churches, which lend unfounded spiritual support to the established order. The people at L' Abri believe that God's truth cannot be molded by either side of a political or philosophical spectrum to fit any particular viewpoint. It is God's truth, exhibited...