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...Bakker as head of PTL, have a change of heart. On Friday Falwell's PTL ministry filed for reorganization under Chapter 11, citing $71 million worth of debts owed to 1,400 creditors. "The ministry is not in the buildings," said Bakker. "If the buildings are gone, I can preach in the streets if I have to." He just may. Falwell gave the Bakkers three days to move...
...more than $100 million in profits since, by forcing restructuring plans and boosting stock values at Cyclops, Storer Communications, NL Industries, Viacom International and Gelco. Nonetheless, the three men still take the New York City subway to work every morning, avoiding limousines and other costly perks. Says Tierney: "We preach leanness and efficiency. We practice what we preach...
...indications there will be more scruff-of-the-neckmanship as Adler continues to preach and practice his doctrine. During a recent visit to Hampshire College in Massachusetts, Adler challenged a roomful of students with a dialogue on Plato. He put them through a rattling seminar that left the students exhausted and with some urgent questions hanging in the air. "That's the purpose of the seminar, to get you all worried," he told them happily. Worried they were, but Adler departed with his conviction undisturbed -- that pupils of any age can be educated, and the way to do that...
...most distressing problem of all is that some senior Americanists do not seem to believe that anything is awry. They preach "caution," and view the rejection of Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee and Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley as a victory for the wing's scholarly standards. The wing's lack of an expert on modern American history is attributed to a "dearth of talent...
...those screen folks we're emulating had their soundtracks specially superimposed upon their make-believe lifestyles. But you, poor thing, are cruising around with Papa Don't Preach strewing its irrelevant pop-Catholic message through your culturally-raped brain. Depersonalized top 40 is not the way to apply musical direction to a meaningless life...