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...congregation was so cash poor that some of the members had to sell tomatoes door to door to pay for the hall. Today the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., is the second largest Protestant congregation in America. During weekend services nearly 12,000 people regularly cram into its $15 million, 4,650-seat auditorium and complex. At a time when the mainstream Protestant denominations are rapidly losing members, Willow Creek's popular success and stripped-down theology are challenging traditional notions about presenting the Christian message...
Assistant Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, who teaches "Jazz," said more than 1000 students tried to cram into Paine Hall for the course's first meeting Thursday. Enrollment in the course is limited to 400, Boone said...
Increasing numbers of teenagers are turning to private SAT cram courses that can cost as much as $800 and claim to boost scores 100 points or more. "Over the past five years, our revenues have doubled," boasts Stanley H. Kaplan, chairman of a nationwide test-coaching chain that bears his name. Summer courses at Ivy League universities or prestigious academies like Phillips Exeter are also popular. These platinum-plated extras, plus fees for applications and trips to visit campuses, can add up to a staggering sum -- and all before the tuition bills start to arrive...
...paradox of Sontag is that she is an ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and superabundant energy -- of a Victorian moralist. If she likes to "go faster," it's partly because she has so much to cram in. In August, for instance, she attended the biennial gathering of the writers group PEN International (she is president of PEN's American chapter) in Seoul and managed to infuriate Korean authorities by insistently raising the issue of imprisoned South Korean writers. Late September brought the New York Film Festival premiere of Sarah, a documentary on Sarah Bernhardt that Sontag narrates, and a week...
...there is a significant difference. Dukakis had four years to learn his lessons. Graham needs to cram for a final less than seven weeks away...