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What would the world be, once bereft...
Christianity's future is anything but secure in Israel and the occupied areas, despite the faith's strong roots there and the government's official commitment to religious freedom. Author Amos Elon has written that Jerusalem may soon become a mere "museum" for visitors, bereft of Christianity as a "living religion." A clergyman in the city's withering Catholic community agrees: "I am afraid that the day will come when we will have the Christian holy places without local Christians." Church experts estimate that Jerusalem has 9,000 resident Christians, one-third of the total at Israel's founding...
What keeps the conservative movement's struggle with success from turning into a full-blown crisis is the absence of effective competition. The Democrats as a party and the liberals as a secular sect are far more bereft of direction. It is impossible to imagine a liberal gathering where one champion would warrant two or three different lapel buttons, let alone the eleven bearing the likeness of Ollie North...
There seems to have been, as well, an attempt to cover up the caper. The theft occurred in April, but the bereft Bunny keepers said nothing publicly until two weeks ago, when Playboy offered a Hefty $50,000 reward for the wayward videos' safe return...
Again all attention on the courts was focused on Brown and Chang. After dropping the second-set tiebreaker, they left the outcome bereft of any suspense, racing to a 5-0 lead in the third...