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Suddenly and unexpectedly, Bakker's control of this seemingly flourishing domain, built over 13 years, came to an end last week. With trembling voice, the televangelist confessed to the Charlotte Observer that he had been < "wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends" who had "conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter." Following that involvement, Bakker said, he had "succumbed to blackmail" to protect his family and organization. After the news broke, Bakker resigned as head of PTL, handing control of his troubled operation to fellow TV Preacher Jerry Falwell...
...least as far back as Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, novelists have been interested in setting imaginary characters loose against a background of authentic, tumultuous events. Small wonder. History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly...
During its first year, ODN was largely the domain of a few. The Network expanded through personal contacts made by the Ahmad brothers at such campuses as Brown, Berkeley, Mt. Holyoke, and Wellesley. A development conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in April, 1984, attracted students from across the nation, many of whom then went home and founded their own chapters of ODN. By the end of the spring of 1984, ODN had 15 campus branches...
Goal will become junior Stephen Hall's domain once again today, following a brief stint by junior Chad Reilly. Hall has a pair of shutouts and a 0.66 g.a.a. in three previous contests. Reilly took over last Saturday, earning the shutout...
...Jean Piaget. He also described levels of readiness for certain kinds of reasoning, concluding that logical thought begins by age 7 and by 12 escalates to the ability to deal with abstractions like the future. "His emphasis was on logical reasoning," says King. "We are looking at a different domain of problem solving." In that domain, adds Kitchener, "logic alone is not enough for mature judgments...