Word: agee
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...believed in "sweat equity" and the "theology of enough." It took a while, however, for Millard Fuller, who died on Feb. 3 at age 74, to develop that selfless philosophy into Habitat for Humanity, which he co-founded with his wife Linda...
During his law-school days, Fuller sold everything from rat poison to cookbooks with classmate Morris Dees, who later co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center. Although the pair raked in the dough--both became millionaires by age 29--Fuller's obsession with amassing wealth pushed Linda away; in the '60s she left with their two young children and considered divorce...
...encomiums that followed his passing last June, of a heart attack at age 71, what has been conveniently missed is the fact that, for the past few years of his life, the entertainment world didn't pay much attention to George Carlin. Unlike his great contemporary Richard Pryor - whose slow decline from multiple sclerosis prompted years of tributes and early eulogies, before his death in December 2005 - Carlin had the bad form to keep working to the very end, maintaining a nearly full schedule of concert appearances, drawing crowds of devoted (mostly baby-boomer) fans, continuing to come up with...
...biological evidence was not presented in court—and has since been destroyed. Nevertheless, even if Sullivan committed the crime, he did not deserve the punishment he received. No 13-year old child should ever be sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. At such a young age, adolescents’ brains are very much still in a process of development. Young children should not be held culpable as adult criminals would be in many cases because children’s reasoning capabilities are not fully developed. This is one reason why young children should often...
When I began writing about Washington more than 30 years ago, it was a fairly modest town. There were lobbyists; there always had been - just read Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's hilarious novel The Gilded Age. But in the 1980s, I began to notice that the lobbies of the buildings where the lobbyists lived had gone all marble and melodramatic. A new class of steak houses hit town: now you can buy a Kobe beefsteak for $175 in some joints. The limos multiplied; McMansions sprouted in the near suburbs. In a way, Daschle - a very decent...