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...YELLOW The King has inspired trends before. Last year, during the celebration of his 60th year on the throne, Thais wore yellow shirts every Monday to commemorate the weekday of his birth...
Bell comes of faithful stock: his parents met at Wheaton College, known as the Evangelical Harvard. But his first ambition was to be David Letterman. ("The birth of irony," he jokes. "The Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others...
...violence. Others have probed Taylor’s life for explanations. While his past was troubled—Taylor had a 2005 armed assault arrest, and a few incidents regarding team functions—by all reports from friends and teammates, he had turned around his life since the birth of his daughter. But no amount of speculation about the possible cause affects the fundamental nature of the tragedy...
...study’s author and the director of the Student PIRGs’ national program. In Arizona, those wanting to register to vote were required to provide an Arizona driver’s license number or identification card. People without one of these were required to produce a birth certificate or passport—documents the authors felt students from out of state would not typically have with them. “It’s really blatant disenfranchisement,” said Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director for the New Voters Project. No form of identification is necessary...
...married 15-year-old Muslim girls. But they still played basketball, hung out at Dunkin' Donuts and, by all accounts, worked long hours at the roofing company they owned together. Dritan and his wife, Jennifer Marino, an Italian-American convert to Islam, had five children. (Eljvir's wife gave birth to a baby girl shortly after his arrest...