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...Jerry Falwell's influence and wrote him off as a ranting, Bible-toting demagogue [May 28]. Falwell's rich life was about 5% politics, with the rest spent preaching biblical truth and establishing homes for alcoholics and unwed mothers. But his greatest living legacy--aside from the massive Thomas Road Baptist Church--is Liberty University, a college that has 100,000 graduates and more than 21,000 students. They will be his final tribute, bearing his standard for decades. As for Falwell's "politics of division," Jesus said, "Do not suppose I have come to bring peace to the earth...
...oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat: the Jardine's gun's noon salute, dating back to the early days of the territory. 133 Leighton Road, Hong Kong; tel. + 852 3477 6888; concierge.lphk@lanson place.com...
...lodge in New Zealand's Bay of Islands region. On misty nights, Lewis has been known to drive to Kerikeri Airport (an hour away) and even Auckland (four hours away) to collect guests personally, so they wouldn't have to navigate the darkness on the "wrong" side of the road. An accomplished harpsichordist who performed around the world, Lewis loves the challenge--given the lodge's remote location--of persuading musicians to perform at guests' anniversary dinners. Matauri Bay, Northland, New Zealand; tel. + 64 9 407 0010; john@kauricliffs.com...
...waiting for their saviors and launched their own uprising against the Israelis. The spark for the intifadeh, as it became known, was a Gaza traffic accident in which an Israeli driver killed several Palestinian laborers. Revolt spread all over the Palestinian territories, including Jalazon. "We burned tires in the road and threw stones," recalls Omar's friend Ismaeen, who wears a muscle shirt and has the dark, heavy-lidded eyes of an Egyptian pop star. Ismaeen boasts that from age 15 onward, he spent five years inside Israeli prisons. "For throwing stones?" I ask. "Well, stones and Molotov cocktails," Ismaeen...
...Jerry Falwell's death brought many reminders of what happens when preachers take sides; long ago, Graham had decided to go down a different road. He had gotten way too deeply involved in his friends' campaigns, and he resolved to try and stop diving in. Ten days before his good friend Ronald Reagan was sworn in, Graham told Parade Magazine that "evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left. I haven't been faithful to my own advice...