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...wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies, "It was not this man...nor his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest...
...Webvan? I can't personally say if it was anything to do with their delivery service being lousy, since I've never actually had a Webvan delivery. I would like to have one - it's not like I have a particular desire to waste precious minutes squeezing vegetables amidst harsh halogen lights and Muzak - but every time I made an order on the website, it told me delivery was not possible in the next 48 hours. What, they think I know I'm going to run out of milk three days ahead of time...
...NATO-controlled Kosovo, who then launched attacks on security force personnel. And despite some verbal wrist-slapping from NATO, the reward for that strategy may turn out to be a place at the negotiating table to determine Macedonia's future. The failure of the alliance to act on its harsh criticisms of the rebels also signaled an ambivalence to the mainstream ethnic-Albanian parties in Skopje, who have ratcheted up their political demands for a bi-national state to the point that accord seems beyond reach...
...Last week a man was convicted of felony animal cruelty for hurling a dog to its death in traffic. Now he could get three years behind bars. Isn't that a little harsh...
...referendums, which gives Ahern some running room. On the other hand, Ireland is now on the cusp of a major shift, from being the E.U.'s biggest beneficiary - $30 billion over the last 25 years - to a net financial contributor, thanks to its booming economy. It would be a harsh result for the poor countries of Eastern Europe that are desperate to join the E.U., though hardly a first, if a prosperous Ireland chose to pull up the ladder behind itself...