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...million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio: a 100-ft.-long (about 30 m) cross, lit up with thousands of red, white and blue bulbs. His goal? Sticking to "the simple Gospel," not Beltway affairs. "If Jesus were preaching today," said Humbard, "he would never get into politics...
...community organizer in inner-city Chicago, and from there went on to the Illinois State Senate, underscoring his outsider credentials and institutional accomplishments. Hillary Clinton reintroduced herself to voters as someone who "grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America" - not inside the Beltway - and quickly recapped her accomplishments in Arkansas, the White House and the Senate. Mitt Romney - successful businessman, head of the 2002 Olympics and former Massachusetts governor - structured his whole speech around the notion that American needs "innovation and transformation" and explained how "throughout my life, I have pursued innovation and transformation...
...apparently touched the Beltway effectively enough to get U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday to suspend the Gomez family's deportation proceedings, and release them from detention, for 45 days. That's long enough, their supporters hope, to get Congress to consider private legislation introduced this week by U.S. Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Miami that would allow the brothers to remain in the U.S. at least until the current Congress ends in January...
...door. But Colby's book of skeletons tells a story of a CIA misused, ordered to do things it can't and shouldn't be doing. And all at an enormous waste of CIA resources and credibility. If the White House were less worried about threats inside Washington's Beltway and more about ones outside our borders, the CIA and the rest of us would be a lot better...
...Finally, with basement-dwelling poll numbers for President Bush, along with real doubts about the leading Presidential candidates of the two major parties, Bloomberg's call for independent, non-partisan problem solving free of the typical Beltway bickering seems to be a perfect part of an emerging storyline...