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...godless as some believers might think. There are scores of colleges that mix liberal arts and religious values to attract competitive students. Taylor College in Upland, Ind., offers the same courses as secular schools, but students can still minor in youth ministry or biblical languages. Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., is known as the evangelical Harvard for its twin traditions of quality academics and deep faith. Not that contemporary values haven't been encroaching. In 2003 Wheaton lifted its 143-year-old ban on dancing...
Then why did it feel so bad? Why did a bullet dodged feel like the beginning of something and not the end? Minutes after the news broke, counterterrorist experts popped up on TV screens like Pez dispensers to remind us that our homeland-security system is ill equipped to stop the kind of attack the suspected London bombers were said to be planning. President George W. Bush warned against false comfort, saying although he believes the U.S. is more secure than it was before 9/11, "we're still not completely safe." Worst of all, the Brits, who can normally...
...World Championships, held on home turf in Indianapolis. The' 04 Olympic team team was uninspired from the start at times; even the classy Tim Duncan, three-time N.B.A. champ, looked like he would have preferred, say, a skin rash than to march in the opening ceremonies. The U.S., an ill mix of green young players and testy vets like Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury, never recovered from a 19-point drubbing by Puerto Rico in the first game, and scraped away with a bronze in Athens. American hoop dominance was done...
...London Taylor said that George Orwell described sport in the mid-1940s as "war minus the shooting" but that today Orwell's ghost "would probably diagnose not an exercise in disguised nationalism but a series of deceptions practiced on a credulous public." Most sporting events have indeed gained an ill reputation for doping, bribery, hot tempers and even violence. The Olympics, football, cycling, tennis and horse racing have lost the glamour of sportsmanship and become a big business, corrupt to the hilt. All the same, they absorb the curiosity and interest of millions of people worldwide...
...Israel is skeptical of how much help it will receive in policing Hizballah from Lebanon's weak and ill-equipped army, which currently lacks the ability - and the political will - to confront Hizballah...