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...occupied a special role as chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over internal workings of the 435-member House of Representatives. But G.O.P. Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded that Ney surrender his chairmanship earlier this year, and Ney then withdrew his candidacy for reelection in his Ohio district. This week, the Congressman's office indicated he had entered residential treatment for alcohol dependence. In a statement, he said, "I have made serious mistakes and am sorry for them. I am very sorry for the pain I have caused to my family, my constituents in Ohio and my colleagues...
Osteen is a second-generation Prosperity teacher. His father John Osteen started out Baptist but in 1959 withdrew from that fellowship to found a church in one of Houston's poorer neighborhoods and explore a new philosophy developing among Pentecostals. If the rest of Protestantism ignored finances, Prosperity placed them center stage, marrying Pentecostalism's ebullient notion of God's gifts with an older tradition that stressed the power of positive thinking. Practically, it emphasized hard work and good home economics. But the real heat was in its spiritual premise: that if a believer could establish, through word and deed...
...single duty: to bear a male heir. In 2001, after one miscarriage, she finally bore Princess Aiko, who remains the couple's only child. Not long after the birth, Masako succumbed to a depression that many blamed on the intense pressure placed on her to produce a son. She withdrew from her official duties, and at 43, seems extremely unlikely to produce another child...
...Palestinian attacks, including suicide bombings, against Israelis. After he became Hizballah's leader at age 32, he calculated that hit-and-run attacks would eventually force the vastly mightier Israel Defense Forces to quit Lebanon, which they had first occupied in 1978. Following Hizballah's merciless guerrilla campaign, Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, making Nasrallah the first Arab commander in chief who could claim a victory over Israel. It came at a personal price: in 1997 his eldest son was killed by Israeli shellfire in southern Lebanon after Nasrallah encouraged him to go there and fight. "Martyrdom...
...this week Chavez's adversaries have finally started to show some signs of a unified front. With the prospect of a divisive round of primaries on the horizon, the majority of opposition candidates for December's presidential election withdrew on Wednesday in order to back Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia state and the leading opposition candidate in the polls. After months of intense negotiations, opposition leaders seem to understand that throwing their weight behind one man is their only prospect - however slim - at unseating the heavily-favored Chavez. Front runners Julio Borges of the Justice First party and Teodoro Petkoff...