Word: clergymen
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Neither Carney nor Fife is particularly happy about the border patrol's informal ties to his group. Fife says it's "the moral equivalent of starting a forest fire and then going in to rescue a couple of people." The clergymen say they will not turn in to the INS anyone who comes to them for aid. Border agent Aguilar sounds just as wary of the partnership. Saving lives is one thing, he says. Helping aliens get across is something else. Says Aguilar: "There is a line they must not cross...
Maybe. But Sharpton's supporters can hardly contain their glee when they cite their evidence that Sharpton is ascending as Jackson sinks. They point out that when rioting erupted in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, black clergymen prevailed on Sharpton to cut short a fact-finding tour about slavery in Sudan and fly in to lead a rally. They claim, without offering proof, that Jackson was rebuffed when he tried to wrangle a similar invitation. "Jesse's not the go-to guy anymore," says a Sharpton admirer. Jackson, who denies scrounging...
...Muslim supporters. His party ranks only fourth in parliament?behind both Megawati's group and Golkar, the former ruling party of Suharto?but as leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's largest Muslim religious organization, Wahid can count on more than 40 million followers, mainly in Java. The clergymen within the organization are already preparing the faithful for Wahid's hard times. In mid-December, when Wahid's troubles were mounting, 40 clerics told their congregations they had all shared a prophetic dream: Wahid was sitting atop a coconut tree in a storm, but no matter how violently the tree...
...middle of the most turbulent season in the history of the death penalty since it was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976, a season marked by the strange political marriages it has created. There was a time when only a few liberals and a small group of clergymen fretted over the fairness of the death-penalty system. But ever since famed defense lawyer Barry Scheck and his Innocence Project gained national exposure with their successes in freeing death-row inmates with DNA evidence, a number of prominent conservatives have come forward with their doubts about the reliability...
...symbolism Bush employs can be just as orchestrated. The Governor rarely turns up in front of a camera these days without surrounding himself with African-American schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping with the script earlier in the week that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor...