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...standing ovation. The actual guest of honor was a Christian missionary accused under Australia's anti--religious vilification laws of making anti-Muslim statements. (He appealed, and the case was sent back to trial court.) But Akinola, wearing a gray Western suit over his usual purple shirt, clerical collar and 3-in. wooden cross, was the man most of the religiously conservative attendees had come to see. In cadences that approached preaching, he commended the missionary for what Akinola called his faith and courage at a crucial moment for the Gospel. He cited challenges to Christianity in Australia, Africa...
More than half of those jobs were on the Virginia side of the Potomac, the bulk of them white-collar stuff like management consulting, computer services and scientific research. The epicenter of the boom has been Fairfax County, just east of Loudoun and a notch below it on the income list. Fairfax is home to a million people and 600,000 jobs. It is ethnically and racially diverse. It has excellent public schools. Its unemployment rate is just...
Harvard will come out determined to show it can play without departed seven-footer Brian Cusworth, and that it’s not going to lay down and die without the big man, and will hang another collar on the Lions. The Crimson by four...
...part, Perot became publicly critical of a management philosophy that, he believed, put too much of the burden of cost cutting on blue-collar workers while preserving such executive perquisites as private dining rooms and chauffeur-driven limousines. Chairman Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that...
That is an incredible and somewhat ironic financial feat for the man known as the Boss, a Freehold, N.J., native who learned how to play the guitar by listening to the radio. In the eleven years since he first gained national attention, the bus-driver's son and blue-collar rock poet who sings of hard times, dying towns and stubborn dreams has become much more than a legendary performer. Bruce Springsteen, 37, is one of the most potent money-making machines in the history of entertainment. His earnings possibly eclipse even Michael Jackson's income, which derives from records...