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...meritocracy"--people selected from a much broader, more national, more diverse pool on the basis of the familiar college-admissions test and then sent on to the same colleges and the same influential institutions the Wasps had previously dominated. Today the President is a lower-middle-class Southern Baptist from Arkansas, the Secretary of State is a Czech immigrant, and the CEO of TIME's parent company is Jewish, but all three went to highly selective private colleges in the East. The change goes beyond mere anecdote. The overall tenor of elite institutions such as law firms, investment banks...
...distributed by Keyes' campaign to the "Keyes 2000" e-mail list, wrote that each time he saw Keyes in action he "came away with greater conviction that God has raised him up for such a time as this. Sometimes it seemed as though Dr. Keyes was another John the Baptist...a voice crying out in the wilderness or Gideon with his army of 300...or Elijah and the thousands who had not bowed down to Baal or David going up against the strong and powerful Goliath...
Lindner, a nonsmoking, nondrinking, nonswearing Baptist, has been a major supporter of the Republican Party, its candidates and causes. This may account for the less than enthusiastic response that Lindner received when he first took his banana case to the Clinton Administration early in 1993. In fact, at that time the U.S. Trade Representative's internal memos show that bananas were a low priority for the U.S. government. What's more, USTR and State Department officials had given--and would continue to give--repeated assurances to leaders of Caribbean governments that the U.S. supported European preferences for their bananas...
...three children, Fowler "accepted the call" in her 50s. Encouraged by her male pastor, she enrolled at Howard University, where she earned a master's degree in divinity in 1997 at age 63. For the past two years, Fowler has led a congregation of 65 at Mary's Missionary Baptist Church in Washington. Her special mission: unwed mothers. Each female member of her congregation takes a mother and child under her wing, offering them food, clothing, homework help, transportation and spiritual guidance. The reward? One recent Sunday, a single mother Fowler had been counseling showed up at church with...
...University Minister, my denomination, Baptist, is almost irrelevant," he explains. "My concern is also for Hillel, Catholics and people who have no religious identity...