Word: christian
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After high school Starr enrolled at Harding College, a Christian school in Searcy, Ark. But 18 months later, after Harding's president chided him for criticizing the school's spending priorities in the college newspaper, he left for George Washington University in Washington. After graduating from there and then from Duke University law school, Starr clerked for then U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger until 1977. He went on to the Washington offices of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a law firm based in Los Angeles where William French Smith, a friend of Ronald Reagan, was a partner. In 1981, when...
...couple of members of Christian organizationson campus have expressed concerns about aspects ofChumbawumba's act--for example, their dressing upas nuns and doing sacrilegious things on stage,"Blake said...
Second runner-up Christian T. Rudder '98 won $500 for his project "Simple Stocks," a computer program designed to help consultants clarify their clients' stock information...
...Huntsville, Texas. The Pope did what he could do. The crowd that held a candlelight vigil outside Tucker's cell Tuesday night did what it could do. Pat Robertson did what he could do, airing an interview with Tucker on "700 Club" Tuesday in which the born-again Christian said that God, not the legal system, was deciding her fate. Texas Governor George W. Bush declined to do all he could do, which was offer a hopeless 30-day stay of execution after the Supreme Court twice turned down her appeal. "God bless Karla Faye Tucker," Bush said...
...BILL CLINTON'S initial 90-minute Oval Office meeting last Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the President chided his visitor for meeting with the Rev. JERRY FALWELL and evangelical Christian groups at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington the day before coming to the White House. "Look, Bibi," said Clinton firmly. "You meet with Falwell [because] you think I am snubbing you. I could make the argument that you are gigging me." The television evangelist, who is anathema to Clinton, has distributed political videotapes that conspiratorially--and unconvincingly--hint, among other things, at the former Governor's complicity...