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Jakes may be able to pack a stadium with his preaching, but that seems to be the only similarity he has with Billy Graham. Jakes justifies his lavish lifestyle by saying that Jesus "must have been rich to support his disciples." May Jakes put his emphasis on the plain preaching of the Gospel of Christ rather than on "ornate call-and-response cues and dramatic eruptions." Have we not had enough disappointments from those wealthy televangelist preachers of the 1980s? L. HOYT GRIFFITH Wirtz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 8, 2001 | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing old material. We’re consequently served up fare that, in its eagerness to showcase Cusack’s widespread appeal, arrives with hardly anything to distinguish itself (think: plain pasta). So it was with Cusack’s recent America’s Sweethearts, and so it is with Serendipity, his newest romantic vehicle...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Being John Cusack | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

...Wall Street has is Dell and Sun, Cisco and AMD, this gloomy earnings report and that (relatively) sunny one. And US Airways CEO Stephen Wolf now saying his airline may not even need (or want) the loan guarantees - which is just plain hard to believe. The indexes are surfing on forecasts, outlooks, estimates and economic reports that have only just begun to describe the post-Sept. 11 world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Week Three on Wall Street: Pacing the Waiting Room | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Once again, the FM crack staff headed out together for a night of tasty tidbits and just plain boozing. For this slothful bunch, actually getting in a cab and heading to Inman Square (which is utterly walkable) proved to be a bigger effort than a usual evening of Tuesday night complaining and yelling. Since a party called, FM dined at the prime hour of five o’clock, before any normal people showed up to graze on Mexican fare. Olé’s claim to fame stems from its legitimacy—this...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

Most of the poems in his newest collection, Night Picnic, start by gradually revealing something plain and recognizable, like a fruit stand, a church or a restaurant. Once the scene is set, the poem will ask you to look at it in an odd way, with an effect that is sometimes fantastic in the clearest way. The payoff is the jolt you get from being forced into a new way of seeing that is somehow off—sometimes violently...

Author: By Jascha Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making the Odd From the Ordinary | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

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