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...would expand the evangelist's ideas in the vastly influential Scofield Reference Bible, divided God's relationship with man into seven ages (the current sixth began with the death of Christ). Their vision grimly upended the previous wisdom. Far from getting ever better, things on earth would progressively worsen, until the Antichrist, also known as the Beast, arose. A seven-year, hell-like Tribulation would begin, survived by only a small human remnant. Not until then would Christ return, defeat the Antichrist and commence his Millennium. Much of Darby's scriptural synthesis had been suggested piecemeal by earlier thinkers...
...drawing more fire still from the nation's outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, the Colombian Self-Defense Units, or AUC, which are infamous for massacring villagers they deem friendly to the FARC. On election night, Uribe seemed to concede that his presidency could, at least in the short term, worsen Colombia's interminable agony. "I wasn't invited to a party," he told reporters. "Were...
...there will be significant downsides to moving these schools across the river, for which the University must prepare. A physical separation of graduate schools from the College will most likely worsen the existing intellectual gaps between the schools, further eroding the already tenuous connection students feel in belonging to a common university. Interdisciplinary dialogue, which Harvard has begun to promote through programs such as Mind, Brain and Behavior, will be made more difficult by moving schools away from the heart of campus. Undergraduates will find it harder to take advantage of the wealth of opportunities afforded by the graduate schools...
...month in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned by the side of a dirt road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find out they were a brother and sister, eking out a life together in a dark, cramped cave. And the situation could worsen. Chinese demographers estimate that in some rural areas, 80% of children between ages five and 10 are boys. "You think the problem seems terrible now," says a U.N. official based in Beijing. "But wait until all the kids from the one-child policy years have grown up. That's when...
...minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation, the speaker has changed but the substance (or lack thereof) hasn’t. (Earth to the president: We may not be as smart as our transcripts say we are, but we’re certainly not stupid...