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With that precious time, the Crimson will look to uncover the winning formula that it so clearly exhibited last year. Perhaps then, the drive home from Ithaca, New York will be a stark contrast to Friday's disappointing trek back from Yale...
...just about a big a thing as you can get," says TIME National Correspondent Richard Zoglin. "Diana was the most famous person in the world. Her life was kind of a soap opera, and the ending was classic soap opera." Only this soap was for real, and that stark reality touched everyone who sat open-mouthed in front of a TV set or computer screen this weekend. Their only comfort: that millions of others were grieving...
After her death, in 1994, Soros gathered at his home a group of professionals concerned with issues of death--for instance, the fact that two-thirds of Americans die painfully, in hospitals or hospices. The group decided to put together an organization and, with stark simplicity, called it the Project on Death in America. Soros wrote it a check for $15 million. "It was an extraordinary experience," says Dr. Kathy Foley, who is PDIA's director as well as a professor of neurology at Cornell University Medical College and an expert on the treatment of pain. "Most of us were...
...where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size meetinghouses a year and adding 15 cathedral-size temples to the existing 50. University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark projects that in about 83 years, worldwide Mormon membership should reach 260 million...
...their higher echelons, a case-hardened if amiable professionalism. A primary reason for the church's business triumphs, says University of Washington sociologist Stark, is that it has no career clerics, only amateurs who have been plucked for service from successful endeavors in other fields. (In fact, there is no ordained clergy whatsoever: the term priest applies to all males over age 12 in good standing in the church, and "bishops," while supervising congregations, are part-time lay leaders.) Religious observers point out that this creates a vacuum of theological talent in a church with a lot of unusual theology...