Word: rev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker, the Rev. Jerry Uppling, began his invocation with Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...Dole to be President--but some around her wonder how much she wants to be First Lady. "The Scripture often describes Jonah as a reluctant prophet," says Charles Colson, the former Nixon aide, who has been her spiritual mentor. "I think of her as a reluctant politician." Says the Rev. Edward Bauman, the Methodist minister Dole credits with helping her rediscover her spirituality: "She believes that God is calling her to do this at this time." If so, it may be a temporary assignment. "God doesn't want worldly successes," Elizabeth Dole says in her speech. "He wants my heart...
...studio-adjoining "green room," a woodpaneled room the size of a Wigglesworth double. He or she is prepared with water and coffee for the set, to wait on guests and their handlers and to resolve minor crises: What if, for instance, the car scheduled to pick up Rev. Jesse L. Jackson picks up someone else instead? ("You're telling me your driver doesn't know what Jesse Jackson looks like?" I asked, incredulous...
...riddle at the heart of Atlanta has always been how to balance the bright new equality envisaged by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with the "don't-give-a-damn" romance of the Old South immortalized by Margaret Mitchell. And how to capitalize on a past that is the source of both its magnolia-scented allure and its shame, while marketing itself as a place of the future...
...wing back to the center of his party. As presidential candidate Bill Clinton proved in 1992, the quickest route from your party's wing to its center is by attacking someone on your side. Clinton took on a little-known rap singer, Sister Souljah, incurred the wrath of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the rest is election history...