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Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
...firing line, berating him and criticizing his policies in public. Haddad, who had barely 10 weeks to settle into the job, resigned and was replaced by former Transport Minister Eliseu Resende. He is the third Finance Minister since Franco took office five months ago and Brazil's ninth in the past eight years...
...Ninth-ranked Wisconsin (21-12-3) boasts Jim Carey, the only goaltender in the high-scoring WCHA with a below three goals-against-average. The Badgers face Colorado College in Madison to open up its post-season play...
Harvard's men of the mats placed ninth (out of 14) in the team portion of the tournament. Cornell seized first place by amassing 127.25 points...
...Friday, Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as co- sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted by Christopher's promise to thrust the U.S. more deeply into the negotiations. The Palestinian negotiators felt similarly but have been losing popularity to Hamas; they held out for a face- saving Israeli concession. Christopher pressed Jerusalem to return the deportees faster and improve conditions in the occupied territories. Now if the Palestinians don't show...