Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...last minute Roberts was shut out by a federal bankruptcy judge in Columbia, S.C. The judge instead approved a surprise bid of $7 million from another faith-healing charismatic, San Diego-based Morris Cerullo. The purchase brings new U.S. visibility to Cerullo, 58, who is far better known in the Third World. A flamboyant and apocalyptic preacher who converted from Judaism as a teenager, Cerullo runs revival meetings, Bible training courses and a daily TV show. He keeps secret how much money is raised for these ventures but boasts of being debt-free...
...addition, she recalls, there was some hope that the Board would be able to lure Walesa to the Commencement ceremony. The leader of the Polish solidarity movement accepted an invitation to speak two years ago, but was unable to attend because of political unrest in Poland. Instead, his speech was read in absentia by Professor of Comparative Literature Carlos Fuentes...
...should have looked for a system that promoted the most student choice but instead we looked for a system that was most acceptable to the [house] masters and Dean Jewett," says the council's Residential Chair Daniel H. Tabak '92 who authored a rival plan the council dismissed...
ATTEMPTING to do the right thing amid an information blitz, we are like the victims of frequent brainwashing that the philosopher Hannah Arendt describes in an essay on political deceit. Contrary to what some might expect, persons subjected to a stream of media manipulation, instead of believing what ever new they are told, grow less impressionable, more cynical, more inclined to disbelieve everything even as more versions of the truth are fed them...
...critique mainly reveals the complacency of its critics. No longer would those who fight for change--for accountable and compassionate government, for healing the inner cities, or for an end to race and gender discrimination--be granted any moral high ground. Instead, the new conservatives can dismiss them all as followers, yea-sayers, cunning players to the political crowd...