Word: broking
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Bradlee is best known for heading the Post when it broke the Watergate scandal...
...hard to adjust and still get my work done," he says. "In addition, I was constantly broke...
...finished with him," insists Franklin of his father. "He's a warhorse. Daddy in his latter years is having some of his biggest meetings. He set the attendance record for the SkyDome in Toronto. He set the attendance record for the Georgia Dome. Broke it." And then the son is suddenly full of the Spirit. "As our society falls apart, as crime increases, when, as the Bible says, the love of most grows cold, people want to know, Does God care? Am I just here on earth to breathe so many cubic meters of oxygen and eat so many cows...
...Quick and the Dead, a Christian punk band, has played at one of his crusades, singing: "I'll dress like a woman. Bare my butt. But sometimes I wish I was me.") But his general approach, he says, is "You don't tinker with it if it ain't broke." He is actually a somewhat limited man, lacking Billy's curiosity about and respect for the intellectual and theological worlds, and for all his personal magnetism, he is uninterested in playing politics, even within the confines of evangelical gatherings. He offers little to contradict Martin's picture of a fairly...
Surely no dream is worth dying for at the age of seven. Children must be protected until they learn safety and self-preservation. As a pediatrician in emergency service, I have seen many childhood deaths, but this one broke my heart. It was cruel to get to know Jessica through the media before her devastating accident. Her death was so palpable, so public, so preventable--a living docudrama most of us wish we had never seen. Jessica's upbringing probably desensitized her to many risks, but she is the innocent bystander in this case. PAM STONE Calgary, Alberta What parents...