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...David C. Knapp, former president of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was critical of what he said was higher education's longstanding tendency to divide rather than unite social classes...
Harvard came out flat and Penn jumped out to a nine-point halftime lead. Penn widened the margin in the second half to 42-29 on an eight-ft. jumper in the lane by junior forward Liz Knapp. But Harvard managed to overcom e deficit...
...Christian Science is further beset -- by doctrinal tumult. Last month many members of the faith were shocked when sedate reading rooms around the world began displaying a book that had been deemed unsound by church officialdom more than four decades ago. The Destiny of the Mother Church, by Bliss Knapp, claims that the faith's 19th century originator, Mary Baker Eddy, was virtually a second Christ. This flies in the face of Eddy's own claims to be no more than the inspired founder and leader of the movement. Official publication of the volume has led to a rare outburst...
What is the link with Destiny? Disillusioned church members assert that the book was published in order to obtain a bequest of $90 million from the Knapp family, whose fortune was based on California agriculture, real estate and oil. The writer's father Ira was a member of Eddy's inner circle, and the book represents the author's reminiscences and beliefs concerning the founder. Those beliefs were rejected by the ruling board in 1948, shortly after the volume first appeared. Under the terms of the bequest, the Knapp fortune was destined to go to Stanford University...
Prostitution is legal in some Nevada counties, and Knapp figured he could help the state's economy by bringing it into the mainstream. His ladies of the evening would look more like Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke than street-hardened hookers. To attract investors, he was offering sex coupons, promises of "three girls for the price of one" and "VIP" cards good for a week of unlimited visits. The project was put on hold after prison officials fired him under a policy forbidding employees to hold second jobs in certain establishments. Governor Bob Miller also objected to the bordello, which would...