Word: antioch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul, and I'm calling from Antioch. Some of your neighbors are starting up a new church over there in Corinth...
After corrections officials assigned Singleton to parole in Antioch (pop. 48,000), some 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, nearly 10,000 town residents signed a petition opposing his presence. Fearing vigilante violence, county officials got a temporary court order to block the plan. San Francisco County quickly followed suit, citing similar public safety concerns. Nearby San Mateo County also raised objections to having Singleton living within its borders. At week's end Singleton's ex-wife Mary Collins stated that she was not afraid of him and offered to take him into her home in Lake County, north...
With well-known contributors like William F. Buckley and Joyce Carol Oates, Art & Antiques has gained a reputation for provocative reporting. One article last year raised questions (still unresolved) about the authenticity of the Antioch chalice, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and purported to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper. A few months ago, a man speaking broken English wandered into the magazine's offices. He turned out to be carrying slides smuggled out of the Soviet Union showing works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts never before seen in the West...
Sally Frank, a 1980 graduate who is now a fellow at Antioch Law School, originally filed her administrative complaint with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights in December of 1979. She claimed that she was denied membership in Princeton's all-male clubs--the Cottage, the Ivy, and the Tiger Inn--on the basis...
Financial inducements are more and more common. Ohio's Antioch College, recognizing that students now try to cut costs by attending college closer to home, is offering a $1,000 tuition rebate to any Ohio resident who qualifies for admission this year. Nearly 60% of colleges and universities today give financial aid to top students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four...