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...setting: the decrepit seaside resort of Blackpool, whose own mayor admits it's "a bit dated." The gathering: Britain's Conservative Party, whose members' dominant hair color is silver. The theme for their annual conference last week: "Today's Britain, Tomorrow's Conservatives." Like the whole scene, the slogan had an awkward edge, implying the Conservatives on hand today are not really a match for the problems of today's Britain. After three big defeats by Labour, even the proudest veterans of Margaret Thatcher's revolution must be wondering whether deliverance will ever come. And despite a surprisingly sparkling convention...
Christianity should not become too closely enmeshed in narrow political issues for theological reasonsthe idea of rendering to Caesar what is hisbut for practical reasons as well. History has shown that Christian denominations too closely attached to politics have not fared well. Witness the decrepit churches of Europe and Russia, which were, for ages, welded to the hip of various rulers and ruling parties, and also the fast-emptying mainline protestant churches in America. Are there any more politically aware denominations than the Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, or Unitarians? There are not, but there are also no denominations more in danger...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) requested HUPD assistance in dealing with persons throwing bottles from the decrepit, mock-Flemish facilities of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine...
...years Mark Matsov, 61, has been a dedicated guardian of an endangered treasure. Crammed into 113 sq m of a decrepit six-bedroom apartment in downtown Tallinn, capital of Estonia, are some 50,000 mostly handwritten pages of music and manuscripts, and 1,500 hours of unique audio and video recordings of music by the great 20th century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This cache of riches has been piling up at the apartment, home of Matsov's father, Roman, Shostakovich's favorite conductor. The works were performed and recorded against the will of Soviet bosses, who either banned Shostakovich...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many scenes in the movie are similar to Spielberg’s other films in the action genre. A digital eye on a metallic stalk that tracks the characters around a decrepit basement acts very much like one of Jurassic Park’s velociraptors in one scene. The aliens are two shades darker than...