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Life is not plain-sailing, and writers on Life must not put themselves in antagonism with their subject

Lutheran God-talk, after all, has been the main impetus for everything from modern death of God talk — all those Nietzscheans were brought up Lutheranly — to numbing, sterile, crabby, and cramping sectarianisms […]

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.