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Clearly Amos has some issues. Much of the religious skepticism that pervades her thought as well as her music is a reaction to her strict upbringing (she was born in Newton, N.C., and her father was a Methodist minister). In addition, the sexual-assault theme in several of her earlier songs, including Me and a Gun, derives from an incident 13 years ago in which Amos was raped by a member of her audience whom she had offered to drive home. She is a co-founder of the Washington group RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network...
Texas freshman Erin Aldrich won the high jump on Saturday with a finish of 1.94 meters. Southern Methodist junior Kajsa Bergqvist placed second, vaulting 1.91 meters...
People who know Seed have strong reactions to him, positive and negative. The Rev. Thomas Cross, Seed's pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Oak Park, believes his interest in cloning is an extension of his Christian charity. "He's committed to human well-being," Cross says. "He's doing this out of compassion...
...argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels), the three churches (Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal) ministering to a population...
...Harvard men's basketball team (7-4, 1-0 Ivy) slay a bigger, stronger Dartmouth team and fall a tenth of a second short of an upset, victory over Southern Methodist (SMU) in two of the four games it played over the holiday break...