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...KAMISESE MARA, 83, Fiji's first Prime Minister and a leader of the nation for three decades after its 1970 independence; in Suva. Born into a family of clan chieftains, Mara helped draft a constitution that sought to balance the rights of native Fijians and residents of Indian descent prior to the end of British rule. He served as Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992, aligning the country against communism, and was appointed to the largely ceremonial presidency in 1993, only to be forced out in 2000 when an armed gang stormed the Parliament and held the Prime Minister...
...church fathers did pick up on the scriptural language of Christ's death as a ransom, the payee was not God but the devil, who some felt had legitimate claim on humanity because of Adam's fall. But others preferred another scenario: to see the Crucifixion and Jesus' subsequent descent into what they called Hades as a kind of divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened...
...than the second—when the bards engage in a poetry competition that deals with topics like whether Aeschylus or Euripides uses a more inventive meter. While The Frogs adds diversion with tap-dances, drag muses and impressively over-the-top poetry recitations in the second half, the descent to hell is inherently more dynamic...
...just completed an 11-hour flight from Los Angeles to London, a five-hour jaunt to Jordan and then a 90-minute hop across the desert to the Iraqi capital. It is that final leg that gives Mulhern a taste of what lies ahead. As the pilot begins his descent into Baghdad airport (put your tray tables in their locked-and-loaded position), he takes the plane into a maneuver called "the corkscrew," a tight downward spiral from about 1,000 ft.--in theory, steep enough to throw off the heat-seeking missiles sometimes launched by insurgents below...
...evening’s events can be discerned. To add to the confusion, most of the characters fail to remember the evening’s alcohol-fueled mayhem the next morning. All that remains is Lulu’s indignant sense of violation and Stanley’s chilling descent into madness...