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...straight and strong again. His face showed signs of peace and pain; the peace that has come to him, the pain he leaves behind. As many as 18,000 people passed by every hour, moving almost too fast to pray. The cell phones served as cameras, capturing a relic to carry home...
...more than 6%, though it continued its role in central government. Until last week, that is, when Haider announced the formation of a new party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria, which would absorb all of the FPO's government ministers. Dismissing the FPO as "an important historical relic," Haider said it was time to focus on domestic issues such as jobs, families and cultural identity. "We do not want to use up all of our energy on our internal critics, we want to use it for Austria," he said. Schüssel says he will continue his "successful...
...given to seeing complexities, fine distinctions, or shades of gray. His refusal to compromise on matters such as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality seemed something out of another age. Many thought—and still think—him to be an out of touch relic: the leader of an old and superstitious faith who will soon be forgotten by a more sophisticated society...
...writing a novel, but she didn’t talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
...gaming devices were just for kids, Sony's new PSP (short for PlayStation Portable) could easily change your mind. With its slick, black-lacquer design, bright 4.3-in. display and ability to play movies and MP3s, the $250 PSP makes its main competitor, the Nintendo DS, look like a relic from the Ice Age. The PSP could be the hottest gizmo since the iPod. --By Anita Hamilton...