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...throwing up a series of blocking moves in the hope of wearing down Turner. The network last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to stop Turner's bid. In addition, 97 groups ranging from the National Organization for Women to the United Church of Christ filed in sympathy with CBS. The company delivered a 90-page denunciation of Turner. In a memo attached to the petition, CBS charged that if Turner were to gain control, the network would begin a "death spiral." CBS claims that Turner would burden the firm with $4.5 billion in debt...
...systems, grades were down: tougher standards cut the number of A's more than 4% at Cal State and 3% at Penn State. Old-time values were up: University of Wisconsin-Madison students voted Mom and Dad their No. 1 heroine and hero (runners-up: Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ). Law school and medical school enrollments were down after a boom of nearly two decades...
...jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst in the opening moments of the trial of three Bulgarians and five Turks accused of conspiring to kill the Pontiff made one thing clear: Italian prosecutors may face a difficult task...
...decided to wear it as a necklace. I thought, "This is kind of offbeat and interesting." I mean, everything I do is sort of tongue in cheek. It's a strange blend -- a beautiful sort of symbolism, the idea of someone suffering, which is what Jesus Christ on a crucifix stands for, and then not taking it seriously at all. Seeing it as an icon with no religiousness attached to it. It isn't a sacrilegious thing for me. I'm not saying, "This is Jesus Christ," and I'm laughing. When I went to Catholic schools, I thought...
...preaching the liberating gospel in a credible way . . . if we exclude rather than make room for unmarried people living together, divorced people, homosexuals, married priests and women? . . . Developments in the church in recent times have forced many of us, because of our faith in and obedience to Christ, to be critical and disobedient toward the church." John Paul listened pensively. Afterward, he made a point of shaking Wasser's hand warmly...