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They called it the "Miracle on the Mat" when Rulon Gardner of Wyoming defeated Russia's Alexander Karelin for Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling earlier this year. Gardner, who had only enjoyed moderate success in his career, beat a man who hadn't been scored upon in ten years...
...year-old accuser's story goes, the football star arrived at a post-prom party of Roman Catholic high school students at 3:30 a.m. and, according to the complaint, appeared "really drunk," even as the kids flocked around to get their picture taken with the celebrity. The star allegedly called out to the crowd, "You call this a party? Where's all the alcohol?" The kids then produced glasses of liquor they had been concealing. According to the accuser, the football star began a game called "the drinking Ping-Pong," in which the loser chugged a drink. Later, after...
Here's a historical puzzle, for those with the stomach for it. How is it that the Jews survived the first Christian millennium? The church, from the moment of its embrace by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, enjoyed immense power and employed it with ruthless efficiency to eliminate dozens of heresies and pagan creeds. Its relationship with Judaism, its spiritual predecessor and the first challenger to its claims for Christ, was especially poisonous. Why, then, were the Jews permitted to live--and be persecuted--another...
...contrast to fashion's trends, technology's are not so much fads with finite ends but stops along a continuum. Roman numerals appended to new versions of the Palm Pilot increased as rapidly as scores on a pinball machine, and ever more advanced handheld gadgets debuted at a dizzying speed. As the year progressed, those who didn't crave or couldn't indulge a moment's isolation began connecting to the Internet through cell phones or to instant-messaging systems via the BlackBerry two-way pager...
...Calendar bickering aside, this has been a truly remarkable millennium. Think of what has occurred: the birth of Christ, conversion of Constantine, the fall of the Western Empire, the barbarian invasions, the rise of Islam, the coronation of Charlemagne, the creation of the Holy Roman Empire. We have seen the spread of new types of government, such as arbitrary lordship, and new ideas, such as religious intolerance, across Europe; will these trends continue into the future? The tenth century was called by Henricus Luce "The Ottonian Century" for the dominance of the Holy Roman Empire, but will the Empire maintain...