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...long time won't abdicate on the basis of a single defeat. It will maintain the kingly mannerisms until it loses again. So it is with the Australians on the eve of the rematch, a five-Test series beginning in Brisbane on Nov. 23. Even for the crustier fans of both countries, an Ashes contest may never have been more tantalizing. Part of its allure is that it will put the preceding one in context. Was the 2005 result an aberration, a consequence of many things falling for England in a way that won't possibly happen again...
Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would...
Hard-rock miners tend to think of themselves as semiheroic, crustier than cowboys, and when a site is inconvenient, they say, "You mine where the ore is." Henderson's ore is entirely surrounded by environmentalists. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is not more than a mile away on all sides. Just + a bit farther, 2.5 miles to the southwest, is the great national park...
Once disdained by upper-crust Protestants as "Holy Rollers," Assemblies worshipers are now on a holy roll. Combining lively worship, warm fellowship and soul-winning zeal, the group posted an astounding 23.6% increase in church attendance between 1979 and 1985, a period when those crustier Protestants were struggling to stem decline. John Vaughn, who tracks church growth from Missouri's Southwest Baptist University, reports that two-fifths of America's most rapidly growing congregations are in the Assemblies. The mammoth First Assembly in Phoenix, for instance, boasts the nation's biggest Sunday school (8,000 students) and Holy Week pageants...
...Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...