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...then in 1517, the political divisions also became religious -- and correspondingly bloodier. An obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg his 95 theses against the Roman Church's sale of indulgences, partial pardons for souls in purgatory. The Lutheran faith, subsequently known as Protestantism, spread rapidly across northern Germany. Then, in the fratricidal ordeal known as the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), the French, Swedes and other nations joined in playing out their political and religious rivalries on German soil. Much of Germany was devastated and the starving survivors reduced to misery...
Much of the money covers the upkeep on his three Pharaonic homes. The annual maintenance for Trump's 45-room spread in Greenwich, Conn., comes to an estimated $400,000. His Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., costs about $1 million a year to run. His allowance will also have to cover $650,000 in annual support payments for his estranged wife Ivana and their three children. Exempted from the budget is Trump's fancy transportation, which is up for sale: his $30 million yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess (he says he wants $115 million...
...theater is probably the most heavily subsidized in the world: government grants are seven times as large as those in France, about 25 times as large as those in Britain and roughly 100 times as large as federal grants in the U.S. As a result, nearly 200 repertory troupes spread among more than 100 cities each mount as many as 25 productions a season, often with a multitude of bit players, plus sets and costumes more elaborate than any nonmusical play receives on Broadway or even in London. Where many creative choices made in U.S. or British theater seem blatantly...
This year, anti-ROTC activism spread to otherschools, such as the University of Wisconsin andMIT. Earlier this spring, MIT Provost John M.Deutsch drafted a letter siomilar to Bok andSpence's, reflecting a growing tide of academicdiscontent with ROTC policies.Crimson File PhotoA. MICHAEL SPENCE...
...first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...