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...having snapped up a sought-after NBC guest pin. "So what did you have to give up?" asks Kling. "If I told you, you'd die," his friend replies with a self-satisfied grin. "They took a UPS [corporate pin]." There's a pause as Kling shakes his head. "Jesus," he says, visibly impressed. The day before, Kling had finally got his hands on a World Olympic Congress pin he'd been chasing for more than two years. "It's the sense of achievement," he says. "And it's a lot easier than putting a moose head on my wall...
...audiences. His pictures were intended to allow the viewer to imagine him or herself in Christ's crown of thorns - the pious people of the time were urged to meditate on the suffering that Christ endured. Durer took this attitude to an extreme, painting self-portraits of himself as Jesus (not on display at the Busch), and writing that the portrayal of Jesus is one of the central purposes of any artist...
Lieberman, of course, isn't the first candidate to wax religious. George W. Bush called Jesus his favorite philosopher, and Gore said he often makes decisions by asking, "What would Jesus do?" Both parties are parsing the same polls, which show a country troubled by a sense of moral breakdown. Gore adviser Elaine Kamarck has vowed, "The Democratic Party is going to take back God this time." A Gore strategist notes that while Northeasterners may be more straitlaced and tight-lipped on matters of faith, Lieberman's holy spirit is touching people in all the right places: "Blacks...
...custom-made vest. Then, from near midnight to the first glimmering of dawn, she and a posse of evangelists wandered down alleys in small-town China, stuffing mailboxes, bicycle baskets and window sills with their religious contraband. "When the people woke up the next morning," she says, "there was Jesus everywhere...
...members have the funds to grease the palms of the police, they can often escape arrest. Ma so far has paid $350, more than six months' salary, but he's worried that the authorities will soon return. "I pray they will not come back," he says. "I pray to Jesus, and I pray to the Virgin Mary. Sometimes I even pray to that yellow-haired woman...