Bible-centered churches, especially those with a leavening therapeutic touch, such as Saddleback and Willow Creek in suburban Chicago, are the country's fastest growing.

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"I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses, " Jackson was quoted as saying this month in The New Yorker magazine.

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While Giotto developed a sense of volume in his painting, Duccio stuck to the two-dimensional painting of Cimabue and surpassed it, leavening the Byzantine forms with brilliant hues and a tenderness between Madonna and Child (pictured) that could touch his viewers.

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