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...sermons tend to dwell on the practicalities of daily life rather than the hazy hereafter. His stock-in-trade includes greeting-card clichEs, self-help nostrums and pithy doses of advice on how to cope with the challenges of child rearing, on succeeding in business (his three-day management seminars, costing $200 a head, are booked up for months in advance), even on a healthy sex life. "We feel like he cares about us," explains 22-year-old Irsan, wiping his eyes after a regular Thursday-evening sermon in Aa Gym's native city of Bandung, a four-hour drive...
President Vladimir Putin faced rising criticism Monday as Russians digested the cost of Saturday's dramatic hostage rescue. Medical authorities have revealed that all 115 hostages who died on Saturday when Russian special forces stormed a Moscow theater to end a three-day siege by Chechen gunmen were killed not by their captors, but by a mystery gas used to subdue the terrorists. Russian officials expressed regret over the casualties, but emphasized that their intervention had saved the bulk of the 700 hostages the Chechens were planning to kill - and they refused to disclose the type of gas used...
...winner of the 1996 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northeast, created Hell Night on a dare, when customers taunted him that his food “wasn’t really that hot.” Over the years it’s evolved into a three-day orgy of inimitable flavor...
Another problem arose with the timing of the election. The bylaws require general elections each fall to occur two weeks after upper-class registration over a three-day period from Wednesday to Friday...
What do you miss when you're adrift on a merciless ocean? "Mostly TV," admits Californian RICHARD VAN PHAM, 62, who says he was stuck in a boat for nearly four months on the Pacific's high seas. Pham says a voyage planned as a three-day trip to Santa Catalina Island went scarily wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until...