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Today Luther's law-and-order approach is at odds with the revolutionary romanticism and liberation theology schools. In contrast with modern European Protestantism's social gospel. Munich Historian Thomas Nipperdey says, "Luther "would not accept modern attempts to build a utopia and would argue, on the contrary...
Every four years since then, the world has come together to be pulled further apart in the only event that seems to matter: the international tug o' war. Munich in 1972 was a reprise of the Holocaust. Two dozen African nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down...
...understandable that, given his preference, Ueberroth would choose team handball as the most provocative event of the summer. "Games get labels," he says. "Munich." Murder. "The Pan American Games in Caracas." Steroids. For all the planning preceding an Olympics, it is still a dice game: one throw. This is not an altogether unappealing feature...
Under cover of darkness General Erich von Ludendorff, flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting, sallied forth into he streets of Munich, capital of Bavaria, accompanied by his faithful Austrian, Herr Adolf Hitler, to make a coup for the Hohenzollerns by way of celebrating Nov. 9, the fifth anniversary of the abdication of the then Kaiser...
...have now been informed by Herr Hitler that he invites me to meet him in Munich tomorrow morning. The House will not need to ask me what my answer will...