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...them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...
...certainly be understood better. Galileo could be functioning until late 1999, with more than 20 passes through the Jovian system still to come. Next fall NASA plans to launch the new Cassini-Huygens spacecraft on a seven-year odyssey to Saturn. In addition to making at least 36 orbital slalom runs through five of Saturn's inner moons, the ship will fire off a probe that will puncture Titan's cloud cover, parachute to its surface and send environmental readings back to Earth...
...Only about 20,000 people were in the stands for the track competition at Olympic Stadium this morning compared to more than 80,000 on Friday, but officials speculated that it was the steady rain, not sudden fear, that kept people away. Fans at the first day of whitewater slalom competition were delayed more than two hours as officials increased security at the venues. During the beach volleyball competition, officials roving the aisles spotted an unattended bag in the upper level of the stand, and rapidly cleared about 100 people from the area. The match continued as authorities gathered around...
...Poonsters dressed as Canadian Mounties attempted at one point in the event to arrest Hartman for denying his Canadian nationality. But they agreed to let him participate instead in the "All-National Lampoon All-Canadian Olympics," which require participants to drink maple syrup and ski a slalom course in the Castle basement...
That record is impressive in anyone's book, or tablet. A career high for Tomba, it marks conquests in three of the five giant-slalom meets he has entered this season and in all seven slalom competitions. The 1,050 points to his World Cup credit virtually freeze out all trailers in the field. Second-ranked Kosir, 480 points behind, had only praise for his friend at Adelboden. Marveled the 22-year-old Slovenian: ``He skied the last five gates flawlessly...