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...story lies in its focus on three propositions that can't be simultaneously true: 1) God is all-powerful; 2) God is just; 3) Job, whom God lets suffer, is a good person. But the debate in Job actually concludes on a fourth assertion, stated by the Lord from out of the whirlwind, that Job has no business questioning Him. ("Where were you when I planned the earth? Do you show the hawk how to fly?") Some believers are frustrated by this pulling of rank, but the Sunday group accepts it. Says Joy MacKenzie: "I think we're shortsighted when...
...GOOD LORD, WHAT IF ONE OF THE ROYALS HEARD...
...great bronze lions in trafalgar square would be unrecognizable without their centuries-old coating of chalky, swirling, "Don't touch it dear" pigeon guano. But London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone has declared war on the square's infamous winged residents. Livingstone's plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon...
...Jewish joke goes, "How do you make a Romanian omelet? First, steal two eggs." Glass's programs sound as if their creator began by stealing a microphone. He finds--uncovers--drama and humor in the most pedestrian of places. O thou woods colt of Lord Buckley, out of Diane Arbus. Go thou and conquer...
...Events on the ground have forced NATO's hand, and they're no longer treating the rebels as "murderers in the hills," which was the phrase (NATO Secretary General) Lord Robertson used to describe them earlier this year. NATO's intervention to broker the latest cease-fire was an attempt to reduce tensions that had been inflamed by the government offensive that started last Friday. But it appears the alliance misjudged the depths of frustration over the ethnic-Albanian uprising among Macedonian Slavs. Monday's protests started with police reservists, some of whom were given weapons over the past couple...