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...Baptist Televangelist John Ankerberg of Chattanooga, Tenn. Falwell disclosed last week that part of Bakker's hush-money payment was made by PTL and that the remainder was provided by a major PTL contractor, Roe Messner of Wichita. At Dortch's request, Messner then billed PTL for the sum, but Falwell described that as a mere "error in judgment...
...supposed Saudi prince, Ibrahim Bin Abdul Aziz Saud Masoud certainly had a name to befit a royal title. But what impressed Lieut. Colonel Oliver North even more was the prince's offer to donate a hefty sum of money to aid the Nicaraguan contras. North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty...
...ironically, as Man learns more and more he seems to be able to fit his knowledge into less and less space. Current computers that contain the sum total of human knowledge are no bigger than a man's thumb, and are shrinking every day. Soon the devices for storing knowledge will be far too small to read from, and the great advances of civilization will be lost...
...like almost all college experiences, the angst had its redeeming qualities: "True we were jealous maniacs and looked at each other's accomplishments as part of a zero-sum game: You win, I lose," Schumer writes. "But it was because of the turmoil we were in that our friendships during that period were so rich and intense...
...question, presenting one recent instance in which the council committed $12,000 to a risky business venture and then misrepresented the terms of the deal. During the next two weeks I will use this space to look at other aspects of the council's financial operations, including the extravagant sum the council pays to run its Canaday Hall basement office and a system for handing out grant money that slights some student groups while overfunding others. At the conclusion of the series I will look at the ways other schools fund student groups and propose changes that would streamline...