Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic primary). The self-confident Ravitch believed he could pull off a near impossible double play: sell the players on a salary cap (thereby limiting their total income, as other professional sports leagues do) and work out a mechanism for wealthy teams (the New York Yankees, the world champion Toronto Blue Jays) to share more revenue with their impoverished cousins (like the near bankrupt Pittsburgh Pirates and Selig's Brewers...
...packets of money (Canadian money, but still . . .) toward their low-paid, first-place stars; and a few of Philadelphia's famously cranky spectators actually applauded their own team. In Kansas City, Vince Coleman was greeted with affectionate firecrackers; Cleveland stalwarts shied welcome-back corked bats at Albert Belle. In Toronto, fans waved banners saying WE KNEW YOU WEREN'T IN IT FOR THE MONEY and PLAYERS & OWNERS: OUR HEROES...
...This frenzied display has become known as the "laughing revival," or "Toronto blessing," from the city that has popularized it. Though similar to the emotional outbursts found in some U.S. Pentecostal and Charismatic circles, the paroxysms of laughter are new, particularly for straitlaced Anglicans. And they are catching on. After first appearing at Holy Trinity only last May, laughing revivals have been reported in Anglican parishes from Manchester to York to Brighton...
...They are similar to the flamboyant services -- characterized by the trademark laughing outbursts -- conducted by Rodney Howard-Browne, a Pentecostal revivalist from Louisville, Kentucky. According to Charisma magazine, an American pastor who saw Howard-Browne in action brought word to the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a Charismatic church near the Toronto International Airport. Similar outbursts began taking place there in January, at six-nights-a-week services that can last until 3 a.m. They have since spread to churches of several denominations across Canada as well as to England...
...department, Rhode Island School of Design senior Jason Lee has used his knowledge of computer graphics to create illustrations, including a map of O.J. Simpson's estate. Marisa Campbell, a senior at New York City's Queens College, and Susanne Seinader, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, have researched and collected photographs for the Pictures department. Hakim Fajardo from the University of Vermont and Victor Nunez from Wesleyan University have worked on special projects...