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...Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586 B.C. And it was true in between, when an Irish preacher changed the course of American religious thought by bringing a stark apocalyptic vision to a nation that was reeling from the Civil War, its own fratricidal foretaste of Armageddon...
...long time before Germany could build a team with enough depth to duke it out at the highest levels of international football. Even at World Cup 2002, Germany's detractors pointed out that the side's route to the final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish?whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination?Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly...
...themselves. (The worst behavior came from Russian fans, who rioted in Moscow destroying Japanese cars the night their team lost to Japan. One person was killed.) The English, with their St. George's crosses, took their place in the stands as lovers of football; as did the ever-cheerful Irish in their leprechaun hats and orange-and-green samurai warrior outfits, the Mexicans in their gigantic sombreros, and the beautiful Brazilian women wearing little bikinis and big smiles...
...long time before Germany could build a team with enough depth to duke it out at the highest levels of international football. Even at World Cup 2002, Germany's detractors pointed out that the side's route to the final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish - whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination - Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly...
...themselves. (The worst behavior came from Russian fans, who rioted in Moscow destroying Japanese cars the night their team lost to Japan. One person was killed.) The English, with their St. George's crosses, took their place in the stands as lovers of football; as did the ever-cheerful Irish in their leprechaun hats and orange-and-green samurai warrior outfits, the Mexicans in their gigantic sombreros, and the beautiful Brazilian women wearing little bikinis and big smiles...