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...Elizabeth Carl, 44, who is living openly with a lesbian partner. Haines acted despite pressure from the denomination's Presiding Bishop, Edmond Browning, who is sympathetic to the gay cause but wished to avoid the controversy. The action drew a pained comment from the capital's premier Episcopal churchgoer, President George Bush: "Perhaps I'm a little old-fashioned, but I'm not quite ready for that...
...brain. He's a friendly, warm person and extremely considerate." His former colleague Rath says, "David is the kind of person who will visit a clerk who is in the hospital or attend the funeral of the mother of one of his employees." On Sundays, Souter wheels an aged churchgoer across the street to the general store to pick up her Sunday New York Times, and then goes off to visit his mother Helen, 82, who moved to a nearby retirement home 10 years...
...struts onstage, and 17,000 New Yorkers start to cheer. Andrew Dice Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like...
...right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves to fish and swap tall tales. Family man. Churchgoer. Never kicked...
...most visible event for Fellowship participants is the National Prayer Breakfast. The annual gathering was launched by the late Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, who talked President Eisenhower into being host of the first one in 1953. President Bush, a regular Episcopal churchgoer, will hold his initial prayer breakfast this week. It will be attended by some 4,000 people, including ranking officials from all branches of Government, plus diplomats and clergy, who will join in a 90-minute round of prayer and testimonials at a Washington hotel. (At one such session in the Reagan era, former Soviet Ambassador Anatoli...