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...Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench. People were probably using something else before that, but he gave 'em a neat and nifty tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bright: Twilight of the Evangelist | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...recruits could not only consolidate their faith but purvey it one-on-one like Amway. Once converted, more subtle souls often moved past the Laws. But, explains Tommy Oaks, an itinerant evangelist who has observed CCC on dozens of campuses, "Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench. People were probably using something else before that, but he gave 'em a neat and nifty tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bright: Twilight of the Evangelist | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...best loot is hidden in the back, past the seahorse skeletons and powdered pangolin. From inside a rusted safe, shopkeeper Zhu fishes out a bundle of cloth and unwraps a precious amber-streaked crescent. "Rhino horn," he whispers. "Straight from Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Medicine | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...perhaps most remarkable are some deep ideological continuities in taxes throughout world history. By way of framing this argument—guaranteed to have reached resolution between your cereal and tea (or, shall we say, between the Fertile Crescent and Boston Harbor)—consider a brief epic...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Tax Romana | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...That's a sentiment shared by a retired power company worker, Maxwell Kerr, also a Rosebank Crescent resident in 1988. "We have problems here we need to solve for the future-drugs, keeping the young employed," he says. Lockerbie's motto happens to be "Forward," and that is where the town wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Town That Can't Forget | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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