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...millions of Americans but the way churches go about recruiting members to keep their doors open. Increasing numbers of baby boomers who left the fold years ago are turning religious again, but many are traveling from church to church or faith to faith, sampling creeds, shopping for a custom-made God...Analysts say mainliners are suffering because they have failed to transmit a compelling Christian message to their own children or to anybody else. "One thing about the Episcopalians, Methodists and Catholics," says Margaret Poloma, professor of sociology at the University of Akron, "is that people in leadership positions...
...Royal. You see, I launched her and her predecessor [in 1950]. So it's wonderful to feel that now she's going to be at sea and guarding our shores just as in the days of yore ... Captain, splice the main brace" ? a reference to the old naval custom of an extra tot of rum, a round for a job well done. On the day before Easter, her job well done, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge, her residence at Windsor, with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, at her bedside...
...Park," the much-buzzed-about first novel of Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...years, Lee's company, Singa Takara Enterprises, struggled to turn a profit selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves stocked?and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera...
Also saddened by the store’s closing was regular custom Winthrop J. Ruml...