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...church in her midst--indeed right in her own front yard--and Harvard and Memorial Church are fortunate and blessed to have Gomes at the helm of such an energetic enterprise. His scholarship and values are unquestionable; his delight in and kindness toward everyone, equally, is legend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Not, Concerned Christians | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...85th place hopes there will be more watchers for his second run, if only to see Tomba come out to collect a bouquet. If Alberto wins today," he offers gamely, "I win too." Besides, he has had a chance to see his hero in action. "The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope. "Tomba's almost spiritual, he's so relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Even In Alberto-Ville, Everyman Lives | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...suppose) the last innocent child in America, an 18-year-old Sunday School teacher fresh from high school graduation in a tiny Rhode Island town. When Desiree Washington met Mike Tyson at a beauty pageant last July, she saw not the pug and thug of tabloid legend but a young man wearing a TOGETHER WITH CHRIST button who was praying with Jesse Jackson. Tyson, it appears, saw a late-night snack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...voice of the ghost of Magdalena, one of the seven narrators, acts as the foundation of Divina Trace. Magdalena Divina, her memory residing in a holy statue of a black madonna, tells her version of the legend to Johnny Domingo. During her account, another narrator intervenes and takes over the story...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Rich Layers of Life: | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...ancient Arabia, the most fabled land was the city of Ubar. As legend had it, one Shaddad ibn Ad created a jewel-encrusted oasis town in the southern deserts to stand as an "imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Arabia's Lost Sand Castle | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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