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...quarters that the war on terror is not one that can ever end with a treaty or communique, only total victory or defeat. Extremists on each side look to contemporary events as validation of their sacred texts; each uses the others to define its view of the divine scheme...
...post-Civil War decades American Evangelicals seized on Darby like a life preserver. At the time of the Scofield Bible's publication in 1909, they were establishing a set of "fundamentals," which included painstaking interpretations of Scripture. Darby's scheme became a pillar of the new Fundamentalism. (The Scofield Bible can still be found in churches across the country.) When Fundamentalism was humiliated and marginalized after the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925, it merely confirmed for Evangelicals the Darbyite assumption that the world was getting progressively more wicked--beyond any help but the conversion of new souls to Christ...
...enough, there are entrenched telecom monopolies, local media companies and wary regulators to contend with. Malone learned that lesson the hard way earlier this year in Germany, when powerful private broadcasters like RTL and public providers such as ARD and ZDF did their best to block him. "A scheme in which one player controls the heart of TV's infrastructure is against open competition," says Didier Bellens, CEO of RTL Group, which is controlled by Bertelsmann. Given that kind of opposition, it wasn't surprising that after spending months negotiating a deal to purchase six of Deutsche Telekom's regional...
...record $26 million, yet the defender was still a relative unknown when he arrived at World Cup 2002. Not any more. His lithe movement and pinpoint tackling earned him plaudits as one of the players of the tournament. His kind of authority at the back lends itself to any scheme of play. Manchester United has put in a bid for as much as $53 million. VALUE: $53 million, up from $26 million...
Three months after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously to roll back the number of required Core courses from eight to seven, the Core office has quietly released the new scheme that determines which concentrations are exempt from which core areas. The change was originally proposed by former Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen...