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...RECENT SUNDAY, Larry Finney, John Tomlinson and George Harrison, like carnies setting up a tent, began repurposing the cafeteria at the Loganville, Ga., middle school. First they carried in a dozen fake potted plants; then they replaced the lunch tables with a set of heavy risers. Next came an electric organ, boxes full of things like altar cloths and processional candles, and a rack bearing priestly vestments. By 9 o'clock the cafeteria was no longer a cafeteria; it was the sanctuary of the Holy Cross Anglican Church, where the priest, a magnetic 45-year-old named Foley Beach...
...reality, however, Holy Cross (which broke ground for a building on Sept. 19) was born in pain and recrimination. Last January, Beach, then the beloved pastor at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in nearby Monroe, Ga., shocked the members of his congregation by telling them that after 12 years as their spiritual leader, he was leaving not only them but also their denomination, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. Weeping, he explained that the church's attitude toward gays, which he termed its "immoral crisis," had led him to "the conclusion that I can no longer serve the Lord as an Episcopal...
...have the basis for a case until a couple of whistle-blowers from Georgia contacted him last March. Dr. John Bagnato and Charles Rehberg, the administrator of Bagnato's private practice, had spent hundreds of hours probing hospital finances--particularly those of Phoebe Putney Memorial, a hospital in Albany, Ga., where Bagnato was chief of surgery. Bagnato's private practice, Albany Surgical, had tried to open an outpatient surgery center across the street from Phoebe, and eventually he and Rehberg suspected the hospital of meddling in state rules that had blocked the plan. (Phoebe denies interfering.) Inspired, the pair began...
...from this sort of thing; many of their talking-points seem as though they were taken straight out of a “Gore-Lieberman 2000” pamphlet. In the midst of the “Republican revolution,” with Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, in charge and government agencies such as the Department of Education in real danger of being axed, who would have guessed that the next Republican president’s main domestic accomplishments would be more educational spending, a new Cabinet-level agency, and a new Medicare entitlement? And who would...
SETTLED. A class action against RAY MARSH, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, where the uncremated remains of 334 people were found in storage buildings and surrounding forests in 2002; for $80 million; in Rome, Ga. Marsh, 31, faces an October trial on 787 criminal charges...