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...association of dictator and preacher began with a Robertson relief group, Operation Blessing, a branch of which has botched a corn-cultivation project on a 50,000-acre farm outside the capital, Kinshasa. Last year during the Rwandan refugee crisis, Operation Blessing expanded its humanitarian efforts to Goma but was criticized for spending too much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. ``They were laying on hands,'' an American aid worker recalls, ``speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around.'' Many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting, but even considering...
Enter Ptebnja Professor of Ukranian Philosophy Michael Flier--apparently the son of a preacher man--who sought to shame the assembled masses into humble obeisance with a bit of fiery rhetoric. "I ask whether it would be the case that ROTC policy discriminated against Jews, would Harvard University continue to write the check?" Flier thundered indignantly. "I ask whether it would be the case that ROTC policy discriminated against African-Americans, would Harvard University continue to write the check?" he echoed his earlier thunder. "I ask whether it would be the case that ROTC policy discriminated against women, would Harvard...
...televangelist Jim Bakker -- after five years in prison and house arrest for bilking followers out of $158 million -- is now free to go (and preach). But, like a pet reluctant to leave an open cage, the 54-year-old PTL preacher chose to spend his first day of freedom inside the his Asheville, N.C. home, where he'd been legally confined since July. His daughter, Tammy Sue Chapman, told reporters she'd like him to join her singing ministry. BTW: While Bakker did time, his wife, Tammy Faye, divorced him and married Roe Messner, the chief builder at Heritage...
...Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Little, Brown; 560 pages; $24.95), for a boy who was "wary, watchful, shy almost to the point of reclusiveness," such a challenge to a teacher was a radical move, like a con calling out the warden or a parishioner talking back to the preacher...
...Preacher: Jack Kemp showed his independence when he opposed the anti- immigrant Proposition 187 in California, which Wilson used successfully as the centerpiece of his campaign. If that doesn't set him apart, consider Kemp's opposition to the "Contract with America" call for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Kemp still believes in the supply-side notion that only a rising economy can produce real growth and balance the nation's books at the same time...