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...Louis Sheldon, wearing the badges and buttons of an alternate delegate from California, took time out from convention proceedings to recall his brief fling with the Democrats. He met Jimmy Carter in 1976 while serving as the pastor of a Charismatic church in Anaheim. "He was the first professing evangelical Christian ((candidate)) in my time," Sheldon said. "His religious bent seemed to rise above the campaign." So Sheldon switched parties and became a Democrat, introduced Carter to other ministers and attended a White House reception when Carter took office. A disillusioned Sheldon soon rejoined the G.O.P. however, because "I could...
...TITLE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME...
...THEORIST. Stephen Hawking is one of the physicists who made important contributions to this theory. In 1988 he published A Brief History of Time, a worldwide best seller that attempted to explain this idea in layman's language and show how it might describe both the origins and the end of the universe. His millions of readers may not have fully comprehended his ideas, but all of us did come to understand Hawking as a brave and inspiring figure. Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), he is completely immobilized, uses a wheelchair and can speak only...
...himself: an unmarried comedian living in New York City. Early on, the show depended on an awkward gimmick: each episode mixed snatches of Seinfeld's stand-up routines with scenes intended to illustrate the topic or predicament he described. Lately, however, the stand-up bits have been reduced to brief punctuation marks at the beginning and end of each show, and the supporting characters have been fleshed out: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as his brittle ex-girlfriend Elaine, Jason Alexander as his sad-sack friend George, and Michael Richards as goony next-door neighbor Kramer...
With a glance at a note card, Bush hit the need to compete globally and once again identified education and safe streets as requisites. But once again, no specifics of note. In fact, a brief discussion of drug policy illustrated the President's casual attitude toward domestic issues and the degree to which politics drives policy. During the 1988 campaign, hardly a day passed without Bush decrying the evils of drugs. He knew how to end "this scourge," he said repeatedly; he'd learned "a lot" about the problem at the cia and as the head of President Reagan...