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DIED. FRANK PATTERSON, 58, Irish tenor who recorded 36 albums in six languages, in styles ranging from opera to folk ballad; of cancer; in New York City...
...1960s the Convention's leadership, although conservative by most standards, allowed a loosening of its strict biblical interpretation. It aligned itself--loosely--with moderate Southern Democrats. Then, in a now famous meeting at New Orleans' Cafe du Monde, two scandalized conservatives, Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler, hatched an insurgency. Packing the annual convention of 1979, they elected a conservative president and unearthed bylaws that amplified his power. "Baptist battles" consumed each convention until 1990, when the right wing prevailed decisively. The SBC then allied itself with the Republican Party, insisted on word-for-word biblical inerrancy and produced a drumbeat...
...Southern Baptist leadership has struck an unapologetic stance on its policies. "Somebody said the other day that we were trying to set things back 200 years, and we felt like that was a big mistake," convention president Paige Patterson told reporters this week. "We're trying to set them back 2,000 years. We want to go all the way back to Jesus and the Bible." Liberal and moderate state conventions (including those in Texas and Virginia) will continue to squirm, Van Biema predicts, as the national convention slides irrevocably toward a more right-wing philosophy. And while moderate Southern...
...Freshman Dylan Patterson fought back trouble late in the season, but still turned in a solid first year. He joined ultra-consistent junior Shondip Ghosh on the Honorable Mention All-America list...
...injuries to Abraham and Patterson hurt Harvard's chances. The banged-up Crimson lost the Ivy League championship to Princeton in a 5-4 squeaker, but a healthier squad rebounded two weeks later to triumph...