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...desperate for comfort and accessible transcendence. In 1987, TIME reported that the medical center, which cost $250 million to build, was draining Roberts of $30 million to $40 million a year. In his 1995 autobiography, Expect a Miracle: My Life and Ministry, Roberts revealed that he had undertaken his unorthodox $8 million "Call Me Home" fund drive because God had told him to keep the center afloat or be prepared to perish. There is some irony in the fact that this last-ditch bid for mainstream credibility provided the very ammunition used by his critics to relegate him permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Faith Healer: Oral Roberts | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

...hope that The Crimson can come to terms with our perhaps unorthodox way of running a campaign with a little humor thrown in. As we campaign to bring change to the UC, we would appreciate more respectful coverage of our ticket and some semblance of objectivity from The Crimson...

Author: By Robert G.B. Long | Title: The Seriousness of Long-Johnson | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Caplan says she is looking forward to the unorthodox combination of instruments, especially in a venue of this size. “It’s going to be a really cool effect because you have 24 musicians on stage and everyone is doing something...very different,” she said...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hopped Off a Plane at LAX... | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

While Quraeshi believes it unorthodox to use contemporary art to a humanizing anthropological end, such is a necessary gesture to accurately depict the many facets of Islam to a Western audience...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer | Title: Middle Ground | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...campaign to represent the place where I grew up and worked as a beat newspaper reporter, however, is anything but typical - or local. For starters, there are three unorthodox candidates: a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-union Republican; a registered independent running on the Democratic ticket; and a Conservative Party candidate who doesn't live in the district and may well win - or play the part of GOP spoiler and help elect a Democrat to a seat that has been occupied by Republicans since the 1800s - despite skipping most chances to appear publicly with his opponents. But even these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GOP Civil War in Upstate New York | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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