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...city ministry, sent out an Internet letter after 9/11 suggesting that Revelation was the relevant text for understanding what was happening, he got a huge--and frightened--response: "People were asking themselves whether they were ready to die. Very sane, well-educated people have gone back to the storm-cellar thing to make sure they have water and freeze-dried stuff in their basements." Some had trouble reconciling their warm image of a merciful God with the chilling warnings they were reading. "They're asking people to believe that we have a God who simply can't wait...
...guerrillas are gathering in the basement. They used to meet Sunday nights at St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Mass., but the crowd got too big, so now they have broken into cells, gathering nightly by the dozen in parochial school cafeterias or places like this spare church cellar, plotting and testifying under flickering institutional lights. First up is a man in a gray suit. "If the church were a business," he says, "the hiring manager would be out of a job, and the CEO would be on the next boat out." Next comes a psychiatrist, who calls...
Dartmouth and Penn—not 2001 Ivy cellar-dweller Princeton—were supposed to be Harvard’s toughest challenges, yet the Tigers were the team that dealt Harvard its only Ivy loss. The Crimson turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead late in the game but couldn’t win it. Still, Harvard would never lose again during the regular season, as it came back the next day with a 20-point blowout of defending Ivy champion Penn at the Palestra going into exam break...
...assassination in the concert hall became a possibility that ordinary citizens learned to live with. The immediate cause of World War One was such an act. Safe behind our oceans, we Americans were largely spared the murderous results, and the collateral, largely psychological, damage, of the politics of the cellar - though, come to think of it, we did lose a couple of presidents along this dark and bloody...
...goal lead. Dartmouth came back tie the game with 5:38 left, but junior midfielder Doug Logigian came through with the game-winner just under a minute later to lift Harvard (8-7, 1-5 Ivy) back above .500 and bury Dartmouth (6-7, 0-6) in the Ivy cellar...