Word: virginia
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...Harvard rugby club tied for third place in the Commonwealth Cup last weekend in Virginia after splitting two contests in its tour of the Bahamas over spring break...
...Robertson, the engaging entrepreneur of the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Va., denied that the furor over his fellow TV religionists would harm his hopes of becoming a Republican candidate for President of the U.S., although there was hearty debate about its effects on his campaign. Referring to Bakker, Robertson said, "I think the Lord is housecleaning a little bit. I'm glad to see it happen." Meanwhile, Robertson had other pressing business. He interrupted his campaign tours to give a deposition in his two libel suits, each for $35 million, against two politicians who said that his late...
...further bitter actions on both sides. "We do this more in sorrow than in anger," said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. Despite the obvious risks of such an abrupt change in the rules of engagement, the Administration's toughness earned bipartisan applause. Said Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia: "It's about time we took some real action." Added Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico: "There is no question the President did the right thing...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
...Delphian oracle could not have been more clairvoyant. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors at the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Virginia reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome -- flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says...