Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 14 hours later, a drifter by the name of James Harvey, 42, aided by John Rhodes Jr., 42, whom he recruited at the local unemployment office, stormed the West End Christian School in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and seized 80 students and four of their teachers. "There are people on the street who don't have a place to sleep or anything to eat," shouted Harvey. "I am doing this for them." After twelve hours, Harvey fell for Alabama Governor Guy Hunt's false promise of a pardon. He released his prisoners, was arrested, and, with Rhodes, now possibly faces life...
...financial wreckage from last year is still being added up. At PTL, 1987 viewer revenues plummeted to $41 million from the $96 million of Jim and Tammy Bakker's hyperhustling final year. In one seven-month period, Christian Broadcasting Network revenues fell 32.5%, compared with the same time in 1986 -- a drop that partly reflected the loss of its star, Pat Robertson, to presidential politics. Jerry Falwell's income for March through October was $6 million less than projections. Jimmy Swaggart and Oral Roberts refuse to disclose their 1987 results, but the latter's situation is obviously rocky. Broadcast ratings...
Lowell House is a notable exception. Like the other houses, it is sponsoring an "infidelity dance," featuring Christian and the Infidels. Its residents are also delivering carnations and producing a personals paper which will have more than 100 ads and messages...
...contrast, the Infidels' original melodies are usually penned by Christian Kanuth '87 and jointly arranged by all the band members, Steinberg says. During the arranging process, "Bass players are important because they keep a piece of music under control," adds Steinberg, who plays bass...
...Hammond left Christian and the Infidels about a year-and-a-half ago to form Men of Clay when his brother Tom came to Harvard. "I knew that if Tom came here we would form a band together. We had been playing together since high school," says Ben Hammond. Shankar Ramaswami '89, Ben Hammond's squash partner at Harvard, completed the trio when they discovered that they shared the same musical tastes and felt influenced by the Police and the Beatles...