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...effort made them academic stars--Milbank, 49, occupies a prestigious chair at the University of Virginia--and drew fierce fire. He notes that "I would not expect Muslims or Buddhists to buy this wholly, at all." Even some fellow believers find it hard to square his vision of a peaceful, all-embracing Christianity with the religion that burned heretics and launched crusades. Besides, not everyone is a postmodernist. Conservatives cringe when he says that discussions of the actual physical reality of the resurrection have "no place" in his theology. But at the very least, he has cleared...
...Eastern Europe, however, at the time, the U.S. was unable to verify Riegner's allegations. RESIGNED. PAT ROBERTSON, 71, as president of the Christian Coalition, a staunchly conservative political group he founded in 1989 a year after his failed U.S. presidential campaign, to devote time to ministry; in Virginia. Recently Robertson fueled controversy following the Sept. 11 attack when he espoused televangelist Jerry Falwell's accusations that liberal groups were partly to blame for the tragedy. RETIRING. GERALD LEVIN, 62, the ceo of AOL Time Warner (Time's parent company), after 30 years as a top corporate executive...
...government on the hook for at least $2 billion in pension costs if Big Steel goes under. Because steel-state congressmen might be persuaded to help Bush pass free-trade legislation, if their constituents are the exception to the rule. Because the steel states and the swing states - West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania -are one and the same...
...playing ball. (The industry, which has lost 26 companies to bankruptcy in recent years, wanted tariffs of 30-50 percent.) And it's too much for any free- marketeer to hope that the next few months won't see Bush, driven by his unshakable belief in winning West Virginia again, is going to find some way to keep the industry (and the politicians it owns) at least reasonably happy...
...commodity prices is not a smart way to grow an economy in which services are 80 percent of GDP and consumers pull 66 percent of the economic weight. And Paul O'Neill going to Japan and telling them to shut down two plants so two can live in West Virginia? A superpower that believes in its own American Way doesn't go strong-arming for charity...