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Until the Frank expose, few people viewed the Times, founded in 1982, as a serious menace. The newspaper, after all, is owned by investors who are members of the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy. Yet many critics who dismissed "the Moonie paper" in the early days are now taking a second look. Slowly the Times (circ. 103,539) is moving toward acceptability...
...last Tuesday, precisely a week after the devastating earthquake, church bells pealed throughout San Francisco to mark the city's survival and recovery. But a few churches declined to join in the commemoration, which had been requested by Mayor Art Agnos, because the reverberations from the tolling might have brought cracked belfries tumbling down. About 90 minutes after the clangor of the bells died out came the ominous rumbling of yet another aftershock, one of thousands that have done little discernible damage but are likely to keep rattling the nerves of residents for weeks...
Nevertheless, FEMA has become a convenient target for all the frustrations people feel. In the rural community of Awendaw (pop. 200), the Rev. Jonathan C. Roberts of the Greater Zion A.M.E. Church defied FEMA by setting up temporary trailers for his congregation -- on land where the flood plain is lowest. "They told me, 'You bring those trailers in here, we'll lock you up,' " says Roberts. "I told them, 'Meet me at the county line.' " Such confrontations have taken a toll on FEMA officials. Says relief officer Paul E. Hall: "No one likes to be called a jackass...
Griffin is also an active member of the Cambridge Latter-Day Saints Student Association. And after his freshman year, Griffin went on a mission and spent two years in Germany working for the Mormon Church and doing community service...
...Ever since I was little, I saved up to go on a mission," Griffin says. In Germany, Griffin went to different towns in the Frankfurt area talking with people interested in the Mormon Church and also trying to help people sort out family problems...