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...introductory prayer, Plummer Professorof Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes thanked God forMandela and the example he set for the world...
Starr, in turn, has had his response to this charge ready and waiting for weeks: the President's evasive testimony made the detail essential to proving the case for perjury. Though the President promised at his Friday-morning prayer breakfast not to hide behind legalisms, that is precisely what his lawyers put forward at a news conference that very afternoon, when they tried to argue--once again--that lying did not necessarily constitute perjury. Monica's recollections of their activities would clearly fall under the definition of sexual relations, which the President denied having in his deposition for the Paula...
...Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) for you: mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through a chain of mix-ups, mishaps and coincidences of the kind only a perversely playful God (or a writer of Dickensian boldness) could ordain, makes Simon Birch a curiously entrancing, quite...
WASHINGTON: If there was ever a time for healing, this was it. President Clinton seized his final opportunity to express sorrow before the release of Ken Starr's report Friday at a widely televised White House prayer breakfast. The stony mask he wore during the August 17 speech to the nation was gone; in its place, glistening eyes and a cracking voice. "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow that I feel is genuine -- first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family...
...Angeles. And as if to complete his portrayal of a perfectly penitent sinner, Clinton promised to seek "pastoral support and help from others." What could be missing from the apology this time round? Only the timing. With House members voting to release the Starr report just hours after the prayer breakfast, it wasn't too little, but it may have come too late...