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Harvard students encounter an uncomplicated housing system. More than 90 percent of students lives on campus, with sophomores, juniors and seniors staying in the mainly neo-Georgian houses for three years with all meals provided for them, whether they like them or not.

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place... | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

Bakker's fall from this sugarplum land of his own creation began on a warm December day in 1980 at a hotel in Clearwater Beach, Fla. At the time, Jim and Tammy, although sunny on camera, were going through a chilly time offstage. According to some accounts, Evangelist John Wesley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Suddenly and unexpectedly, Bakker's control of this seemingly flourishing domain, built over 13 years, came to an end last week. With trembling voice, the televangelist confessed to the Charlotte Observer that he had been < "wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends" who had "conspired to betray me into a sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Really Bad Day at Fort Mill | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

According to the North Carolina daily, Bakker (pronounced baker) had a onetime sexual encounter with a 21-year-old church secretary during a visit to Florida. The two met in 1980, at a time when Bakker's 19-year marriage to his TV co-host Tammy Faye Bakker, now in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Really Bad Day at Fort Mill | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Not many tears are shed when Clifton Holt, artistic director of the National Ballet Company, is stabbed to death by a drug addict. His dancers had regarded him as a martinet, and his board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends Lovely Me: the Life of Jacqueline Susann | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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