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...Jesus, to say nothing of the eyebrow-raising suggestions found in The Da Vinci Code. One James BeauSeigneur has authored a lively series of novels about a reconstituted Jesus who was cloned from cells found in the Shroud of Turin and who does battle with Yahweh for the fate of all mankind. So all those with feathers to ruffle have probably already had them well ruffled...
...latest signpost in the Bush Administration's hegira from lunatic idealism to utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment. Iraq's fate--well, the U.S.'s fate in Iraq--will be decided in the next six months. There are few optimists left in the Congress, intelligence community or U.S. military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone...
...Everyone’s favorite dark horses face off in the second Ivy elimination showdown of the weekend. The Bears, who are one futile battle with fate away from starting 5-0, have rolled behind All-American running back Nick Hartigan, whose rushing gains would best be tracked in units of miles. Hartigan is averaging 30 carries a game for 165 yards, partially due to the solid Brown passing attack, which has punished teams for loading up the line of scrimmage...
Both the report and Gingrich's letter of admission were issued on the Saturday before Christmas, when most Americans were more caught up in shopping than in the weekend papers. In the end, however, too much was at stake for Gingrich's fate to be an easy call. Too many G.O.P. House members had fresh memories of how his unpopularity complicated their re-election campaigns last November. They were in no mood to be asked to put their reputations at further risk by giving him their unqualified support...
...then, Beethoven had already realized that the worst fate imaginable for a musician had befallen him. In June 1801, he admitted to a friend, “For the last three years my hearing has become weaker and weaker. The trouble is supposed to have been caused by the condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that...