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...Lahaye is many things--influential theologian, founder of a Christian school system, co-author of a sex manual with 2.5 million copies in print--but he isn't a novelist. Which is a bit strange, since he enjoys top billing on the Left Behind novels, the wildly popular books that make the end of the world fun. When LaHaye first conceived the series--entirely written by author Jerry Jenkins--he hoped to sell maybe 250,000 copies. Last year's installment alone sold 3 million, and for the first time since 1994, the author of the best-selling novel...
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne, by David Starkey A manual for succession planning...
...least 90 injured in the year's worst riots. In response to the deaths, thousands of antigovernment demonstrators took to the streets. Teachers and state workers also went on strike in protest against government repression and the country's economic crisis. The march by some 10,000 people - from manual workers to professionals to grandmothers - was well-organized and peaceful. U.S. Wild Fires A blaze the size of Los Angeles burned out of control in the western state of Arizona. More than 30,000 people were evacuated in an area that President George W. Bush declared a disaster zone. Some...
...Four Palestinian militants wanted for the killing of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi have been tried and convicted by a military court - inside Yasser Arafat?s besieged Ramallah compound. One of them was even sentenced to 18 years hard labor, and there?s certainly no shortage of manual work to do in the ruins of Ramallah. Unimpressed by the proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused...
...Football managers looking to the World Cup for clues to the state of their art might want to send away to Darjeeling for a certain (very thin) coaching manual. Because the most obvious lesson to be drawn from the first round of the tournament is that the simplest strategies are the most effective. The surprising success stories?Sweden, Ireland, Denmark?hewed closest to the St. Paul's school of football. They packed their defenses with up to eight large bodies and booted the ball up toward a couple of speedy forwards. It bored spectators to distraction, but delivered the results...