Word: virginia
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...million) based in Springfield, Mo.; he remains on the clergy rolls pending the church's own investigation of the scandal. Dortch has also resigned as an Assemblies minister because the PTL congregation has become independent of the Assemblies. Meeting with Falwell in California last week, Bakker pleaded with the Virginia preacher to assume the chairmanship of PTL's board. Falwell, who is already fully preoccupied with politics, pastoring and his own struggling cable-TV network, said he was not eager to take the PTL helm but felt pressed to do so. Bakker's current problems, said Falwell, might create...
...didn't know that Lew Alcindor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the same person." Coach John Wooden's ten championships over twelve seasons -- the great '60s and '70s stewardships of Alcindor, Bill Walton and Sidney Wicks -- are distant memories. The last three dominators to frequent the Final Four -- Virginia's Ralph Sampson, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing and Houston's Akeem Olajuwon -- won one title among them. Other sports only talk of parity...
What the Democrats need is a Southern candidate on the ticket. Former Virginia Governor Chuck Robb or Georgia Senator Sam Nunn would draw droves of southern white voters...
...Hill, FitzGerald--who is running this spring for a position on Harvard's Board of Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...
Even after 21 years, though, the suffering is not over. Uilleann pipes are fiendishly temperamental; they can break down in dozens of ways without warning, and the prudent performer is always ready for a crisis. "Can anybody help me with this reed?" calls out Sandy Jordan, a Virginia-accented neophyte and the only woman in a room filled with bearded young men. Timothy Britton, a piper, pipemaker and transcendental meditator, comes over to have a look. "The reed's cracked," he says after a quick inspection. "Here, try some Krazy Glue." More trouble from across the room: a cigar-chewing...