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...professor, Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge Jr., cleared Lewis to play earlier this spring because he said the basketball player had a mild nerve disorder. Mudge's diagnosis came after a team of 12 doctors at New England Baptist Hospital--dubbed "The Dream Team" by Celtics officials--said Lewis had a heart condition and should quit playing basketball...
...face of adversity. Three years ago, John Broussard, a former Air Force medic, stunned the tiny Louisiana farming town of Welsh when he announced on local TV that he was gay and had AIDS. After the broadcast, his home was pelted with rocks. Local doctors refused to treat him. Baptist neighbors crowed that he was going to hell, and his parents, he says, "went through more rejection by friends in one year than they ever had in their entire lives...
...slightly damaged drawing by Michelangelo, Holy Family with the Infant Baptist on the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, brought $6.32 million at auction at Christie's in London -- a world record for an old-master drawing. The buyer was the supremely well endowed J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California...
...congregation ((at Little Rock's Immanuel Baptist Church)) sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Clinton repeatedly wiped tears from his eyes." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES...
...After watching West coax amen after amen from the hard-to-please congregation of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, with a fiery sermon, many people are convinced he's an ordained minister. Observed theologian William Sloane Coffin, who witnessed it: "That was black preaching at its best." The truth, says West, is that although he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour when he was 14, "I've just never felt the call to preach. I don't proselytize for anybody, including Jesus...