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...short Bible study leader was told to better control her group—while everyone else was to sit on the floor, she was told to stand in order to garner more authority and respect, and she was instructed to dress better than the others in her group. During overnight conventions, church members were allotted little time to sleep in order to keep them from being rational, causing them to obey instructions without protest. It is difficult to be objective in a high-pressure environment, Lee says. He points to the BCC’s use of mob tactics...
...went on sometimes two, three times a month - basically, says Doe, whenever O'Connell had the urge, until Doe graduated from St. Thomas in 1986 (in the summer of 1984, while O'Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing Doe, who admits he felt compelled to meet with the prelate whenever...
...problem facing U.S. General Anthony Zinni's Middle East mediation efforts is the extent to which violence has become a brutal form of negotiation. Vice President Dick Cheney joined Zinni in Israel Monday in an urgent effort to arrange a cease-fire, and Israel's military withdrawal overnight from recently reoccupied Palestinian areas suggested the mission was making progress. But while the U.S. and Israel might be content with simply avoiding a repeat of the bloodbath of the past two weeks, Yasser Arafat needs more - a resumption of fast-track negotiations for a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...lived since his father rented the old stone house in 1949, were destroyed. By then, our Israeli military correspondent, Aharon Klein, had bad news of his own. A close relative of his wife's had been killed in a raid on an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip overnight. The 18-year-old cousin was a regular dinner guest at Aharon's home...
...afford, but many camps have financial-assistance programs. And, yes, there is a chance that a child may have a bad summer or experience such minor calamities as pink eye, lice and homesickness. But the positive experiences far outweigh the negative ones. I have been involved with an overnight camp in the Pocono Mountains for 10 summers, as both a camper and a counselor. Not only did I gain a strong sense of independence and identity during these years, but I also formed friendships that have lasted a decade. Camp shaped me into the person that I am today...