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...Despite the cash infusion, City of Faith closed in 1989. If it continued to bleed money in its last two years at the same rate it had been, then it could conceivably account for the entire current debt, or the beginning of a negative spiral. Alternatively, it could simply be indicative of a faith-based accounting style that much of Evangelicalism left behind long ago, with the founding in the 1970s of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a 2000-member self-policing group that stresses not just fiscal honesty but efficient accounting practices. Like many Pentecostal and charismatic institutions...
...three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine are eminent scientists, but Mario Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory and the Nobel Prize. It's in many ways a familiar tale, Oliver Twist meets Albert Einstein, the pilgrim who comes to the promised land expecting, as he says, "the roads to be paved in gold. What I found actually was just opportunity." But his story also has enough nice serrated...
...minor dispute. Every time Bush asserts that the U.S does not torture, he is not just undermining his own credibility, he's diminishing the Red Cross too. "It's a downward spiral," says Elisa Massimino, Washington director of Human Rights First. "If I'm the ICRC and I'm visiting [abused] prisoners in, say, Egypt, the Egyptians will say 'What are you going to do? The U.S. says this isn't torture...
...that Federline says his children are being harmed while in Spears' custody, the judge ignores the allegations and something happens to the kids, Grossman says. "Then everyone's going look to the judge and say why didn't you do something? We all knew she was on this downward spiral. We saw the pictures, we saw her performance on the VMAs, we all knew she was a terrible mother...
...personal shoppers was once a showcase for high-end American designers?a tradition Baker hopes to revive. But when Lord & Taylor was bought by Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor was the golden jewel in May's portfolio, but [the owners] didn't focus on it," says Christine Chen, a retail analyst at Needham and Co. Upscale vendors began to bow out. "When I took over [as CEO] in 2000, there was no difference between...