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...financially disabled and educationally starved city is the first in the country to boast the complete guidance of a private university...
...center's DeWolfe St. location will boast kitchen and child-size bathrooms, and Halpern said its facilities might also be expanded for infant care...
...didn't he? That's what cops want to know about Donald Leroy Evans, 34, a drifter from Galveston, Texas, who claims to have murdered 60 people in a 10-year rampage across 20 states. If true, the boast would make Evans the nation's most prolific serial killer. But police and FBI investigators are skeptical, and began a thorough investigation last week...
...Angeles history (seven years); it also did a 2 1/2-year stint in Manhattan. Shear Madness, a mystery comedy in which audience members give suspects the third degree, has run in Boston for 11 years, Chicago for nine and Washington for three. San Diego, Houston, Miami and Philadelphia all boast dine-and-deduce thrillers. In Tony n' Tina's Wedding, revelers trek from a marriage ceremony at a real church to a contentious reception at a nearby restaurant. The play, in its fourth year in New York, has mounted productions in five other cities. A similar show, Frankie and Angie...
Protestantism in the U.S. has always been the domain of small, cozy congregations with 100 to 300 members; Catholic parishes are often large, but few Protestant churches have ever reached the 1,000-member point. Now, rapidly and dramatically, that pattern is changing with the rise of superchurches that boast mammoth memberships and facilities to match. Forty-three Protestant congregations in the U.S. claim 5,000 or more Sunday worshipers, says John N. Vaughan of Missouri's Southwest Baptist University in his Church Growth Today newsletter. Moreover, 116 congregations in 28 states say their attendance jumped by 300 or more...