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Those warnings bear remembering in these days before Easter, when Christians are invited to dwell on the deepest mysteries of faith. Far from being resolved by centuries of scholarship and devotion, the paradox of miracles seems only to deepen. Certainly they occupy a strange place on the spiritual map of America. When Time asked in a poll last week whether people believe in miracles, 69% said yes; and the fastest-growing churches in America are the Charismatic and Pentecostal congregations whose worship revolves around "signs and wonders." Tens of thousands of people gather in a pasture in Georgia...
...Alexandria began gossiping about the trips Aramony would take with Villasor. Anonymous letters on U.W.A. stationery reached members of the charity's executive committee, a group led by Edward Brennan, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. By 1991 inquiries by the Washington Post may have prompted the U.W.A. board to deepen its investigation and to discover how Aramony's personal expenses were passed off as company expenditures...
...with the O.E.C.D. forecasting a modest annual German inflation rate of less than 2%. With Continental interest rates still stubbornly high -- one-year bonds yield 5.8% in France and 5.08% in Germany -- many economists contend rates must drop further if the general sense of prosperity is to deepen...
...beliefs. Old-style polygamists have suffered as much as liberal Mormons from excommunication. Says Jan Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd K. Packer, 69, an ardent promoter of doctrinal purity...
There are signs that Pyongyang is trying hard not to deepen the crisis. Its talk of destroying Seoul may scare the uninitiated, but this "is not particularly unusual" for North Korean propaganda, says Ezra Vogel, the CIA's national intelligence officer for East Asia. In a statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesman that the U.S. considered authoritative, Pyongyang only vaguely threatened to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty if Team Spirit resumed in 1994 and other Western pressures were applied -- but it did not denounce Washington's decision to send Patriots...