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Last week it was his mouth that went off course - blew out of its bindings - after Miller admitted on 60 Minutes to skiing a race hung over. He was "wasted," as he put it, after securing the overall World Cup title the day before. In its promos for the show...
His approach clearly works. He has won two Olympic medals, four world championship golds and 19 World Cup events. In a sport in which athletes tend to specialize in either the speed events (downhill, super-G) or technical events (slalom, giant slalom), Miller does it all. In the first race...
But equally crucial in jump-starting the preacher's path to apology may have been a sharp response by the Israeli government and the attendant threat to his leadership in a project he has worked hard to realize. Robertson, a leader in the evangelical branch that supports Israel's existence...
On Friday, it seemed as though Robertson's repentance had been honored. Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon, reported the Associated Press, announced that "Israel respects Rev. Robertson and accepts his apology, which reflects his true friendship and support for the state of Israel."
Thus the rash TV pastor's pet project would seem to have survived his latest outburst. But his credibility among a watching public may be another matter. The day before the apology was accepted, the Southern Baptists' Land put it this way: "He was wrong, and he said hurtful things...