Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time she showed a real curiosity about psychological pain was right after Foster's suicide in 1993. She picked up books about depression and started to think of the subject as a real disease. Tipper Gore, for one, helped with Hillary's education in this regard, as did some clergymen, says a friend, whom she consulted about the roots of Bill's recklessness. She hoped to convince herself that "it stems from his screwed-up childhood and his own insecurities, that this is not about...
...between the events, but their enormous differences. Unlike Clinton, Jackson did not take months to come clean about his sin. Nor, in the end, did he try to hide behind semantic sophistry. After about a week of excruciating deliberation--made all the more painful because some of the black clergymen advising Jackson wanted him to continue lying in order to preserve his political viability--Jackson went into a synagogue in New Hampshire and delivered an abject apology. Later, at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he repeated his plea for forgiveness, insisting passionately that "God isn't finished with...
...fled Pakistan, fearing revenge attacks by supporters of Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, the intended target of the American raid. In the port city of Karachi, ethnic gangs armed with grenades and machine guns prowl neighborhoods hunting for enemies. Sectarian rivalry among Muslims has become so fierce that some clergymen post bodyguards at their mosques to guard against bomb throwers speeding by on motorcycles. In Karachi, kidnappings of clergymen have become routine; their mosques are then seized by adversaries who try to convert the prayergoers to a harsher vision of Islam...
...three ministers of the moment--J. Philip Wogaman, Gordon MacDonald and Tony Campolo--are members of what was once a behind-the-scenes coterie of clergymen whose guidance Clinton has sought throughout his presidency. MacDonald and Campolo, both evangelical ministers, are spiritual celebrities, motivational speakers and authors of self-help books. Campolo, a sociology professor at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pa., describes himself as "politically liberal but theologically conservative" and has fought for justice for the urban poor and homosexuals. MacDonald, senior minister at interdenominational Grace Chapel in Lexington, Mass., admitted 11 years ago to an adulterous affair...
...each reportedly received a $250,000 donation. Few people asked where the money came from; even fewer returned it. The currying of favor continued under the brutal reign of Abacha. During that time, all manner of prominent African Americans from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to delegations of clergymen, newspaper publishers and businessmen accepted government-sponsored tours of Nigeria, then sang the dictator's praises...