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...Australia is a lesson on how charm, wit and isolationism cannot save a country from the effects of economic lassitude. Nevertheless, the book is flawed by a few of the author's quirks. He tries to imbue various transliterations of China's capital with poetry, alternating "Peking" (for the citadel redolent with the imperial past) with "Beijing" (for the colorless communist metropolis). It is an unnecessarily romantic subtlety made more confusing by Elegant's use of idiosyncratic spellings of Chinese names. He also provides one questionable historical interpretation of a 17th century border treaty between Moscow and Beijing. But these...
Quote of the Week: "I really like our schedule. It prepares us well for the different type of teams we have to face in our conference. Harvard will play us differently, Canisius will play us differently, the Citadel will play us differently...(pause)...and Syracuse will really play us differently."--Duke men's basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski after his Blue Devils shellacked Harvard...
Because of population and demographic shifts, long-established mainline churches often find themselves struggling along in unpromising locations. On a typical Sunday in downtown Pasadena, Calif., for example, only 80 mostly elderly worshipers attended services at the First Congregational Church, a cavernous old citadel built to hold a thousand people. The sparsely populated pews contrast dramatically with the overflow crowds that regularly jam the ultramodern Church of the Nazarene, situated on the fast-growing outskirts of town...
Eleven ministers are nervously keeping their December datebooks as open as they can this year. Reason: they are on the hush-hush list of semifinalists who hope to become the next minister of Riverside Church, the ritzy Manhattan citadel of Protestant liberalism. This week a lucky three or four among them will be notified by phone that they have been picked to come to Riverside for a last round of interviews. The preachers who did not make the cut will find polite rejection letters in their Christmas mail...
This idyllic artistic lifestyle ended in 1977 when the residents of Solentiname attacked a Somozan National Guard citadel at San Carlos. Some of the residents died in battle, and the rest scattered...