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Educational fun, though. Royal Charles has no pretensions to profound historical interpretation, but, with clear exposition of many tangled situations and with careful research, Fraser reliably guides the reader through 17th-century politics. Biography can be the best history for the layman--with a clear chronology and a well-defined cast of characters, events become easier to follow...
Banisadr also won a battle against the ambitious mullahs who resented the rise of a layman to a position of such importance in the revolution. They tried to postpone the oath-taking ceremony until after elections to the National Assembly next month. But Iran's strongman, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has been hospitalized for three weeks following a heart attack, ordered the ceremony to proceed immediately. Khomeini himself administered the oath of office to Banisadr at the Heart Hospital in north Tehran...
Princeton Theological Seminary, considered among the best Protestant seminaries in training preachers, requires three courses on the subject. One covers enunciation, pace, voice production, posture and similar techniques, and is taught by a layman trained in speech. A second analyzes the construction of model sermons from the past. The student learns to mine Bible commentaries, boil his message down to a single sentence, then write out a well-organized sermon. In the final course, students in groups of twelve deliver sermons and criticize one another's-performances...
...life. The church does not allow women in its priesthood (its term for all laymen eligible to hold office). The ruling against Johnson was issued after a closed-door hearing that made national headlines and TV. It was delivered by CIA Personnel Officer Jeffery Willis, her local bishop (a layman who serves as leader of individual Mormon congregations...
...when words like fission, double-helix, and plutonium are on the tip of every layman's tongue, books about science, or better yet books by scientists, are a sure sell...