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Meanwhile, the Church of England is fast fading as any kind of force in the nation's life. The church's regular worshipers constitute a paltry 2.4% of the population. Only 29% of England's babies are baptized as Anglicans. The decline had set in long before Runcie's reign, but he proved powerless to stop it. With England becoming a mission field, the future may lie with the Evangelical wing, which runs some thriving parishes and is gaining the majority among priests...
...World War, after which it was plunged into disorder, depression and despair. As Friedrich Nietzsche anticipated the response: "Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment." Out of the shambles of the well-meaning but ill-fated Weimar Republic surged Hitler and his criminal reign...
...subject matter of his work. He wanted to show that the greatest landscape painting in France could still be produced by impressionist means. "Nature should not be submitted to harsh, premeditated analysis, as in the Grande Jatte," he writes of Monet's attitude. "It should be allowed to reign in the painting as it does in the world -- resplendent in all its nuances, variants, subtleties and surprises...
...legendary encounter when the quarreling Slavs sent a delegation to Scandinavia to negotiate with the Vikings, whom they called Varangians, specifically with a tribe known as the Rus. "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it," said the Slavs. "Come to rule and reign over us." Though patriotic Soviet historians have strenuously challenged this % saga, the Chronicle reports that a Viking Rus named Rurik went to take over the region, and that it "became known as the land...
That's the way it went, as the lightly regarded James ("Buster") Douglas, 29, knocked out Mike Tyson, 23, in Tokyo last week, ending the champ's four- year reign. The papers called it "the biggest upset in boxing history," but they could just as easily have said cinema history: a story like this happens only in the movies. To be exact, it happens only in Rocky movies. Douglas' shocking victory over the previously undefeated annihilator provided all the improbable thrills of a Stallone fist film. And more. Rocky never got the benefit of a long count, so that...