Word: fame
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Vincent Synan, dean of religion at Regent University, contends that Jakes and Billy Graham are the only two evangelists who could pack Atlanta's 79,000-capacity Georgia Dome (both have), "but Graham has 50 years of fame and a great organization." Says Lee Grady, editor of the religious magazine Charisma: "We talk about someone being anointed. Jakes knows he's got a special trust...
...African Americans. Since then, her clientele has diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their home could withstand the iconic force of Frank Gehry and Marcel Wanders chairs. This year she decorated President Bill Clinton's new offices in Harlem with surprisingly modern furniture and light...
...eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s and '60s who rose to fame after playing Sandra Dee's boyfriend in the 1959 film A Summer Place; in Santa Monica, California. Donahue was admired more for his beachboy good looks than his acting abilities, and his career fizzled. He battled alcohol and drug addiction until he sobered...
...replied. But real life isn't always like the movies. When I spoke with Barnard a month ago, he was a lonely man, divorced from his third wife. He had lost his looks to skin cancer. But he could still think back and laugh at his moment of fame. "For a lot of people I was too good to be true," he said. The truth is, Chris Barnard, who dared to go into the unknown, opened a magic door for people who are now walking about with new hearts...
...When the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones ?" - 1 Kings 10: 1-2or "Greatness," but these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty...