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...born again. He bought a Bible the next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college as an ordained Baptist minister, he started the Thomas Road Church in Lynchburg and began to broadcast his services on radio. Within a year his membership jumped from 35 to nearly a thousand. Falwell was a smooth storyteller and his blunt, biting tongue gave his Fundamentalist listeners a new sense of confidence. He thundered against adultery, drinking and premarital sex. He built his church audience with a series of stunts, importing Christian karate experts to smash blocks of ice in front of the congregation...
...Penthouse magazines off the counters of neighborhood stores. Says Topeka Pastor Carl Bush about the local 7-Eleven outlets: "All we're asking is that they put them behind the counter so kids can't get them. But they won't even do that." Next Monday, Falwell and several thousand marchers are expected to participate in a Labor Day protest at the Dallas headquarters of Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven...
...green banner of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, which her father founded and which remains the most popular party in Pakistan. Final prayers for her brother, held in a Larkana sports stadium, were attended by an estimated 25,000 people, many of whom cheered, "Long live Benazir!" Several thousand more supporters went to the cemetery at Garhi Khuda Baksh for Shahnawaz's interment...
Twenty-one thousand federally sponsored student loans to Harvard students, totalling $80,000, are currently outstanding. Tefft said last year alone, Harvard loaned $12.3 million...
Something must be wrong with the latest Steven Spielberg movie. There are no cute cuddly creatures in it. There are no frightening little devils in it. In fact, Spielberg seems to have pulled every idea from the several thousand other time machine movies ever made. So how can Back to the Future be any good? More importantly, how can it make money...