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There are whoops of support and moments of pin-drop silence among these voters who did not make it onto the '80s gravy train. Although Michigan voters have almost nothing in common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada...
...curious mix of intellectual exhilaration and spacy West Coast image has dogged Brown ever since the bushy-browed onetime Jesuit seminarian first vaulted into the governorship in 1974. What most characterized his administration was incessant questioning of the status quo. Long nights were spent brainstorming about everything from cost-cutting to energy conservation -- and virtually no idea was considered too absurd to be dismissed out of hand. Recalls state controller Gray Davis, who was Brown's chief of staff: "Upon learning that Nevada had reneged on a tentative agreement to provide greater environmental control over Lake Tahoe, Jerry spent several...
Aristide came of age in the Roman Catholic Church in the 1970s, at a time when priests throughout Latin America were developing the concept of liberation theology. As a young seminarian in Haiti, however, he was known more as a biblical scholar than a firebrand. But when he returned in 1981 after studying abroad, he was nonplussed by the poverty of the Haitian people. "I had been away for some time," he said about the shock of returning, "and so my eyes were reopened to the squalor and misery." Ordained in 1982, Aristide became a liberationist and soon found himself...
...Thomas dropped out of Missouri's Immaculate Conception Seminary after only eight months of studying for the Catholic priesthood. The reason: as word spread that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot, Thomas overheard a white seminarian say, "Good, I hope the son of a bitch dies...
...most significant cases decided by the court during this century," but later criticized the ruling on the ground that it was based on the faulty assumption that any all-black school was automatically inferior to an integrated one. Thomas has gone from being a Baptist to a Catholic seminarian to attending an Episcopalian church, from having a black wife to a white one. He has built his career in part on an intellectual rejection of government attempts to redress racial prejudice while benefiting from similar efforts...