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...church when he is in Washington. Says Pierotti gamely, "He honestly tells me what he thinks about the sermon." Pierotti turned the other cheek recently and asked Rather to address the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America. Before an audience of 1,000 at Baltimore's Civic Center, Rather shed his hard-hitting image to offer a credo that required no instant analysis. "I believe," intoned Dan, "that one man can make a difference in what happens in the world...
...minor American artist who spent a lot of his time making pictures of Boston. The display assembles nearly 70 paintings and pastels, predominately of Bean Town streets, wharves, gardens and countryside, done around the turn of the century. An exhibit like this probably goes up more for its civic and historical interest than for its artistic merits, and there's nothing wrong with that. Goodwin's cityscapes are fun, if nothing else, and its always nice to know how your town looked and how people felt about it a couple of decades ago. Besides all that, the MFA is free...
...civic affairs occurs only after they have reached...
...helped propel from 65th to 25th largest in the U.S. (assets: $2.7 billion) in the last 14 years. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and a Harvard Business School graduate, Hodges has never held a public elective office, but he has been active in such civic affairs as the state's manpower development corporation, which trains school dropouts for jobs, and in county Democratic politics...
...several civic projects, including development of a man-made lake in the nearby Meramec River basin that will serve as a community recreation center. During the four years that Barksdale has headed the bank, its deposits have topped $1 billion for the first time and its international business has tripled...