Word: fellows
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...neighbors, Leonard Lake, a burly, self-described "survivalist," seemed like an ordinary if slightly ornery fellow. But after a chance arrest in San Francisco earlier this month, Lake committed suicide while in police custody. When officers drove to his two-acre mountain retreat 140 miles northeast of San Francisco, they discovered what was in effect a death camp. Searchers unearthed the remnants of at least five charred bodies and carried away 50 bags of chopped-up bones and other evidence. Police believe that Lake and his accomplice, 24-year-old Charles Ng (pronounced Ing), may be responsible for killing...
...were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner and the road warrior for the cause. They succeeded...
Cambridge firefighter Gil Albert, another lifelong buddy, said that Russell didn't use the largely ceremonial office for self-gratification, but rather, for the betterment of fellow Cantabs...
...services attended by bank and steel executives, and ignored church orders to stop. After his defrocking at last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop James Crumley: "We're tired of (the controversy). We've been embarrassed by it, and it has hurt the church internally...
...outbursts against the West, Papandreou's sallies have largely proved to be grandstanding. In the main, they have been the product of the historic enmity between Greece and Turkey, a fellow NATO member. That confrontation intensified after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in which Greeks are the ethnic majority. During Papandreou's tenure, the two countries have failed to resolve long-standing disputes over air and sea jurisdiction around Greek islands off Turkey's Aegean coast, as well as over the 1983 declaration of independence by Turkish Cypriots in the zone under their control...