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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uproar over Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses has sparked protests in the past two weeks at both Princeton and Columbia, where readings were held in support of Rushdie's right to free speech...
...results speak for themselves. Last year church revenues totaled $8.2 million -- tax free, of course. Church attendance was up 28% over 1987. Contributions average $140,000 a week. The church is about to break ground for a $10 million addition to house classrooms, a ministry center and a gymnasium...
...there's always bingo. According to federal officials, the game has become a $400 million business on the nation's reservations, and for an obvious reason. Since federal laws give Indians some of the privileges of independent countries, gambling operations are free from state regulation. Thus while most church bingo games in the U.S. might permit a maximum prize of $250 a card, the Indian version can offer as much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime...
...known, would be Robbins' mentors. In 1940 he danced in the Balanchine show Keep Off the Grass, and at the end of the decade, he joined Balanchine's New York City Ballet (today he is one of two ballet masters in chief). In 1944 he expanded his ballet Fancy Free into On the Town, which Abbott directed. Betty Comden, the show's coauthor, recalls the young Robbins: "He was wonderful looking, with his dark, dark burning eyes and his wiry, great figure -- a compact ball of energy. He still...
...West, the issue largely seemed to resolve itself into a question of free speech. But in Iran, a vastly different phenomenon was taking shape: the Ayatullah had seized upon Rushdie's book as a flaming spear with which to halt his country's creeping trend toward moderation. Within days, the "liberals" who had seemed to be in the ascendant in Tehran dropped from sight. They had been trying to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the West in order to rebuild the country following its disastrous eight-year war with Iraq...