Word: bakker
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...possible? Absolutely, say paleontologists. After all, aside from a few fossilized scraps, nobody has ever seen a dinosaur's skin. And modern lizards and birds, both relatives of the dinosaurs, are often brightly colored. Some scientists--most notably Robert Bakker, an iconoclastic paleontologist who served as an informal adviser on the movie version of Jurassic Park--have even suggested that dinosaurs could have sported feathers. Which is precisely what Crichton's baby tyrannosaurs...
...televangelist Jim Bakker -- after five years in prison and house arrest for bilking followers out of $158 million -- is now free to go (and preach). But, like a pet reluctant to leave an open cage, the 54-year-old PTL preacher chose to spend his first day of freedom inside the his Asheville, N.C. home, where he'd been legally confined since July. His daughter, Tammy Sue Chapman, told reporters she'd like him to join her singing ministry. BTW: While Bakker did time, his wife, Tammy Faye, divorced him and married Roe Messner, the chief builder at Heritage...
...fallen television evangelist Jim Bakker is expected to be released from prison tomorrow, four and a half years after he was put away for stealing $150 million his Praise the Lord Club followers. He'll go to a halfway house in Asheville, NC where the former reverend will work for an unknown local business...
...said never again," recalls Graham, who put everyone on straight salary and later set up a board dominated by outsiders. (Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace, he quietly visited the imprisoned televangelist in Minnesota for a prayer session.) For years Graham's annual salary was $69,150 plus a $23,050 housing allowance, but last April his board raised that to $101,250 plus $33,750. He was given homes in Florida and California but donated them to Christian causes...
...turn of the decade, the religious right's national crusade seemed moribund. A series of spectacular embarrassments (Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker) and costly political setbacks (Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, the 1992 G.O.P. Convention) spawned a cocky conventional wisdom that the holy warriors were a burnt-out force. Then from the ashes arose a new strategy of striking at the local level to seize the national agenda from the bottom up rather than the top down. "We do our best to fly under the radar of the media and professions so they don't know what hit them until...