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...horror of worldliness, much of Protestantism quietly adopted the idea that "you don't have to give up the American Dream. You just see it as a sign of God's blessing," says Edith Blumhofer, director of Wheaton College's Center for the Study of American Evangelicals. Indeed, a last-gasp resistance to this embrace of wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom...
...tumbled, and chain after chain of historic, family-owned retailers--Gimbels, Woodward & Lothrop, Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward--closed their doors or were swallowed up by stronger companies. In 1980, about 35 major department-store chains were in business; today there are only 13. The merger is the category's last-gasp effort to save itself. "It represents the best chance to stop the decline of the department-store channel," says Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron...
...double overtime Saturday, he obliged once again, badly striking a last-gasp 42-yard try after Brown’s offense finally stalled...
...choosing to go after Chalabi, the U.S. risks alienating some of its few remaining allies in Iraq while inviting fresh doubts about its judgment--all at a time when the U.S. is trying to line up support for the planned transfer of power on June 30 in a last-gasp bid to stave off spiraling discontent with the occupation. "This is always the way the United States does things," Chalabi tells TIME. "One of the first things they do when they come into a place is turn their backs on their friends who were instrumental in bringing them there." About...
Converting the Cup Into Cash It took some last-gasp heroics for England to topple Australia in Saturday's Rugby World Cup final in Sydney; commercial success should now come a little easier. While the players - proud amateurs until the game went professional in 1995 - carve up a €1.9 million bonus, the English game's governing body, the Rugby Football Union, will expect a scrum of sponsors to hail the new champs by loosening their purse strings. The RFU squeezed €15 million out of sponsors this year, topping the €12.9 million it attracted in 2002. After recently...