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...fine, you can easily delay it a day or two ... For the Games, this is not possible." JACQUES ROGGE, president of the International Olympic Committee, stressing that Athens must finish its preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games on time. Only 15 of 35 venues are ready, and a planned roof for the main swimming pool has been canceled...
Wade Clark Roof, author of Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion, says Saddleback's megachurch ministry appeals to the notion that size equals success. "We're told that [his philosophy] not only does something for you in the sense of giving your life meaning but it also makes you happy materially, religiously and spiritually," Roof says. "What Rick is marketing is a kind of American religious ideology that conflates growth with salvation...
...about 5,000 visitors choose from services at six different times and 10 different venues around the campus--some with live preachers, some on closed-circuit TV--offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns in an intimate setting to a tent gathering with roof-raising gospel singing. The hub is the cavernous worship center. Take away the 3,200 seats, the six-piece band, the suspended wooden cross and the giant video screens, and it could be a 747 airplane hangar. In booths outside, ministry leaders promote church workshops on marriage enhancement, parenting, budget planning...
...Advocate building, which has been the literary publication’s home for years, will require a new roof and water boiler, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said...
...during his only other trip to Baghdad, last summer. He left in July, feeling uneasy; three days later, the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood was devastated by a suicide bomb a few doors from where he had spent six weeks, sleeping mostly outdoors on the roof to escape the suffocating heat. "There were body parts on our roof," Mulhern says he heard from colleagues. Several streets in Mansour, where scores of Westerners live, are cordoned off by blast barriers and patrolled by private security guards wielding AK-47s. "Companies are spending a ridiculous amount on security," says...