Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LONG AGO, when I was back home in the nether-parts of Virginia, I attended a soiree with all of my old high school friends--or at least those who had recently been paroled...
After graduation from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976, McNamara has worked as a lawyer for the Boston Gas Company and became a founding partner of a firm after his 1982 run for Congress...
Celestis plans to contest the charge before a state arbiter next month, arguing that Slayton's space mausoleum is not a cemetery but a transportation system. If the arbiter rules against Celestis, the company may sue Florida or move to Virginia, where the Space Services launching pad will be located. Slayton still hopes to begin his space burials in January...
...Robertson, the plan is as intricate as a biblical genealogy. The televangelist from Virginia, though campaigning for months with a prophet's passion, wants to hold on as long as possible to his electronic pulpit at the Christian Broadcasting Network. Once he is a formal candidate, he will have to step down because of federal equal-time requirements. At the same time, he must try to energize the diverse evangelical community behind him. So last week he rented Constitution Hall in Washington for an elaborate production of music and exhortation beamed by satellite to invited audiences at 216 sites. Having...
...development of the West. Pope John Paul II, in an anniversary pronouncement, terms Augustine the "common father of our Christian civilization." Only a handful of thinkers have had equivalent influence over such a span of years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been a "major intellectual, spiritual and cultural force." Even scholars who find the influence more bane than blessing grant the point...