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There is a time to weep, a season to mourn. But there is not supposed to be a second time to do it again from the beginning. Last Tuesday night, about 100 alumni of grief filed into the Oakwood Baptist Church in Walker County, Ga. Clutching candles and tissues, they were forced to revisit the rituals of death. This time they prayed not for the souls of the dead but for the bodies--the 298 (and counting) men, women and at least one infant strewn about the landscape of a remote northwest Georgia crematory...
...encroachment on individual rights. This week, however, even Ashcroft may be surprised by his opponents, whose ranks include not only members of the ACLU, but some dedicated Christian conservatives. That?s despite the fact that the obvious target of any surveillance activity will be Islamic groups and mosques - not Baptist churches or reform synagogues. "Freedom of religion," says Gregory Magarian, assistant professor of law at Villanova University, "is a very popular, very unifying political cause. It breeds otherwise unlikely alliances...
...doesn?t matter whether Bethune is good or bad, right or wrong. The fact is, his order was jeopardized by circumstances beyond his control. Gary Hamel, the uber-strategist who moderated the Fortune conference the way a Baptist minister rails against booze and babes, warns that "we have approached the limits of manageability...
...owns two celebrated art galleries in New York City and one in Tokyo. A brilliant art scholar as well as a skillful dealer, Wildenstein was also devoted to horse racing, owning prominent stables and was named six times as France's leading owner. DIED. HOWARD FINSTER, 84, a fiery Baptist preacher and prominent American self-taught artist; in Rome, Georgia. Finster used his folk art, which ranged from paintings that hung in the Library of Congress to album covers for rock bands like R.E.M. and Talking Heads, to spread his evangelical Christian message. DIED. JOHN PLUMB, 90, natty British historian...
...interfaith prayer service also took place last night at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Sponsored by Cornerstone, a support group for Catholic bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgendered students and their supporters, students were encouraged to participate in the service and to share their stories about coming...