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Even Tammy Faye Bakker, the wife of defrocked televangelist Jim Bakker, has moved the vestiges of their New Covenant Ministries to a warehouse on the outskirts of Orlando; Tupperware salespeople once used the place to hold inspirational meetings. Standing in a sanctuary with pink walls, a pink rug and large brass giraffes around the altar, she reveals that Disney World holds the secret of her intended comeback. "The spiritual person and the person who wants to have fun, it's the same thing," says Bakker, who helped her husband build Heritage USA, the giant Christian theme park in Fort Mill...
...THERAPY CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY, the saddest child brought in one morning is three-year-old Felicia, a small bundle of bones in a pink dress, whose plastic hearing aids keep falling off, tangling with her gold earrings. She is ( deaf, and doctors are not sure how much she can see. She functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax...
...independent Kurdistan is out of the question," he told TIME. "All we want is the right to till our land in peace, the right to local government, the right to speak our language and have it taught in our schools." The rebel leader's bodyguard lounged around in the pink-and-beige interior, staring out through floor-to-ceiling windows at the snowy mountains glowing pink in the sunset. For Barzani, the rapid ouster of the regime from Kurdistan was vindication for his father Mustafa, who died in exile in 1979 after his own uprising against Baghdad failed. "We were...
Every spring around this time, Gregory Gorbach gets fired. He currently teaches 10th-grade science at Folsom High School outside Sacramento, and he's good at his job. Last month, right on schedule, the principal called him in and handed him a pink slip. But sometime over the summer, once the school district figures out how much money it really has to spend, it may hire Gorbach again. This pattern doesn't do a lot for his morale. "I like teaching," he says, "but if I have to, I'll leave it. I don't feel teachers should have...
Please do wear a pink triangle. It doesn't mean you support Queer Nation or agree with anything I said above. It only means that you believe in our fight for acceptance, and that you do not take the side of the Nazis in destroying us and others who don't fit into your idea of "normal." Your support is really appreciated. Virginia Ravenscroft...