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...color of my skin and approaching me about having a personal relationship with Jesus. Sometimes genuinely nice, most of the time condescending, but always making me uncomfortable. (My best friend, a nominal Catholic, would get bothered even more, because he was "supposed to know the way of the Lord...
...British Isles during medieval times. For hundreds of years after their bloody appearance at the end of the 8th century A.D., these ruthless raiders would periodically sweep in from the sea to kill, plunder and destroy, essentially at will. "From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O Lord" was a prayer uttered frequently and fervently at the close of the first millennium. Small wonder that the ancient Anglo-Saxons--and their cultural descendants in England, the U.S. and Canada--think of these seafaring Scandinavians as little more than violent brutes...
...Duisenberg, head of the European Central Bank and monetary lord of the Continent, is not a happy man. The euro, the newfangled currency he has been charged with shepherding since its New Year 1999 debut, is down 23 percent, and on Monday finance ministers from the 11 euro-zone nations arrived for their monthly meeting in a deepening panic. "It is quite evident that we have to address the euro situation," said Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker. "We have to be more creative." But the finance ministers have already signed away all their powers to the ECB. And though speculators...
...humiliating experience for Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, when Londoners go the polls Thursday to elect a mayor. Early in his term, Blair urged the revival of citywide government - dismantled by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 - proposing the new post of mayor and a 25-member assembly (the Lord Mayor of London is a ceremonial job centered on the financial district; local government is exercised in the city's 33 boroughs). That was the easy part...
...ordained; she calls herself a Bible expositor not a preacher, and Just Give Me Jesus is technically aimed at women. But if she performs as she's capable, all that will burn away. Sometimes when she speaks, she acknowledges, "It's like the fire falls, and the Lord just pours out," as happened with the prophet Elijah. "If a man walks in the door," at the revivals, she asks, "why should we get all bent out of shape?" Addressing the ladies of Raleigh, she invokes John 20, where Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene at his tomb. "Jesus is telling Mary...