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...When asked what, other than the terminology, makes these games Christian and not simply mitigated versions of violent first-person shooters, Bagley points out that they show how tough it was to be a Christian in the past and that, most importantly, “God is the victor.” In addition, players survive not on health, as in other games, but on faith. When in danger of being defeated, they simply need to find the Scriptures. Bagley insists that his purpose in including this element was to expose people to the Word of God by showing them...
...Tommy (Christian Hoff) sets the stage by proclaiming, "Let's face it, we put Jersey on the map"-thereby ignoring, to name a few, Thomas Edison (Menlo Park), RCA Victor (Camden), the Miss America Pageant (Atlantic City) and Bruno Hauptman (Hopewell), not to mention the kid from Hoboken, Mr. Frank Sinatra, and a Newark boy whose piercing tenor preceded Valli's in the national consciousness by more than a decade, Jerry Lewis...
...stroking his beard. For all his achievements in scholarship, empire building and propaganda, the Kangxi Emperor had one major failing. After 60 years in power, he died without naming an heir among his 20 sons (by various wives, of course). Competition among the young men was fierce, and the victor, who took the name Yongzheng, was forced to spend most of his 13 years in power defending his claim. One remarkable hanging scroll, painted in the second year of Yongzheng's reign by the Jesuit priest Giuseppe Castiglione - who had been brought to court by Kangxi and lasted well into...
...foodie mecca, Spain draws culinary pilgrims the way France did a generation ago. Hit the Basque town of San Sebastin, and you'll be surrounded by restaurants serving inventive, often experimental cuisine: places like Arzak, a three-star Michelin legend, and in the countryside, Etxebarri, where chef Victor Arguinzoniz takes such pride in his grilled meats and fishes that he bakes his own charcoal out of different tree branches every morning in an oxygen-controlled oven. At the Guggenheim in Bilbao, a prodigy named Josean Martnez Alija, 27, is winning accolades for dishes like roasted tomatoes stuffed with...
...realized Baer's candor with a flourish was not affectation but a kind of verbal rosary. Baer had done some bad things, and he needed to reassure himself and others that he had done them for a good cause. "When I started this whole process, I ran across this Victor Hugo quote. 'Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing,'" says Gaghan. "And what ever happened to Bob inside the CIA, he felt to me like an exile...