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...building at 74 Mt. Auburn is currently configured so that it has five large offices (some of which could be shared), two large rooms suitable for lounging and for parties, a small dining room and kitchen, a library and a chapel that could make an excellent conference room. Very little major remodeling would be needed to turn it into a multicultural center, certainly far less than if Harvard Real Estate got its greedy little paws on it and turned it into more University office space or another damn hotel...
...churches that are booming -- Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, for example, or the 429 congregations cloned from Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California -- do not resemble buttoned-down temples of Wasp propriety. Ministers themselves talk of being "customer oriented" and attend seminars to become "church growth" experts. Jeans are as welcome as suits and ties; theater seats replace pews. Instead of using hymnbooks, congregations sing lively, if saccharine, choruses with words projected on a screen. Worship may include skits, audience participation or applause...
...retired schoolteacher in Raleigh, North Carolina, swears that she helps to bring the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to championship form by wearing Carolina blue nail polish. This year she had to search for three days to find the right shade. Dr. Vann Austin, a doctor in Pinehurst, North Carolina, outfits himself, his 75-year-old mother, his girlfriend and his daughter in Duke undies when madness strikes. A starched Atlanta accountant, spied last week glued to a TV set, was asked about his work schedule in the midst of income-tax season. "It's all secondary...
...final battle with unbelievers. The Waco settlement, once a collection of old cottages scattered around 78 acres of scrub pasture and woods, was consolidated into a compact fort the size of a city block. Having equipped it with an underground bunker and an armory -- adjacent to the chapel -- cult members discussed renaming the place Ranch Apocalypse. Federal agents began tracking frequent shipments of firepower that they say amounted to 8,000 lbs. of ammunition and enough parts to assemble hundreds of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Some time ago a package addressed to the compound split open before it could...
Shafts of equatorial sunshine pierce the jungle canopy and stained-glass windows of a tiny chapel, capturing the dictator's head in a halo of multicolored light. An imposing man in a gray sharkskin suit and shiny black shoes, he clasps his large hands and kneels in prayer, silently reciting the Eucharist service...