Word: rev
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Dukakis is practically even in the poll with Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who has a 23 percent favorable rating. The only candidate with a higher figure is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who received a 33 percent favorable rating. But Jackson also had the highest unfavorable rating of 57 percent...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message that has attracted such a fervent cadre of crusaders to his Republican presidential campaign. "Whether we're rich, whether we're poor -- whether we're management, whether we're labor -- whether we're black, whether we're white -- whether we're educated...
...some blacks he symbolizes what the Rev. Douglas Miles, a Baltimore religious leader, calls the "promise of what has historically been touted as the best of the black community -- squeaky clean, intellectual and an achiever." Schmoke was a star quarterback in high school and student-body president at Yale, served as an aide to President Jimmy Carter, and was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. Running for office for the first time in 1982, he was elected the city's state's attorney...
Hahn also told Playboy the Rev. Jerry Falwell used her to gain control of PTL, which was placed in his hands by Bakker after his downfall...