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JUST FOR THE CASH OF IT Clinton's defense is costing a fortune, and no one thought product placement? Wake up, Ms. Bloodworth-Thomason! Some think the President's swilling of Diet Coke during his testimony could have made him $2 million to $10 million, although one doubter says Coke usually trades free product for its spots. Maybe he should wear an Omega watch, a la James Bond...
...bigger room. Still, she's skeptical about claims that the system is magical: "If that were the case, we'd close down our gyms and open Pilates studios." David Barton, Manhattan celebrity-gym owner and devoted pumper of iron, also offers Pilates classes, but he's a doubter too. All the talk of magically narrowing hips upsets him. "Find me the study that proves all this, and I will kiss that person's behind," he snorts...
...religious revival. Yet, Miles noticed on his book tour that they were not willing to believe just because they want the comforts of religion. Instead, these folk felt entitled to doubt God from inside the church or synagogue. Miles calls this new breed of religious unbeliever, "the doubter in the pew." Since Miles revealed himself several months earlier as such a doubter, we should not be too surprised that he champions these doubters as the face of current American religion...
...last June for a drive with the Rev. Louis Sheldon, the ultraconservative founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, Forbes endured an hour-long grilling. The preacher asked for Forbes' view about abortion (against), school choice (for), and the "homosexual-rights agenda" (against, but no harassment, please). "I was a doubter," says Sheldon. "The stereotype from the 1996 campaign was that Steve Forbes was clearly pro-choice and clearly libertarian." Sheldon emerged a believer. "By the time we got there," he recalls, "we were chatting away like two old cousins...
...just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that was part affection, part exasperation, part amusement, part forgiveness--and part pity. Even a doubter like me, when the news arrived from Paris that Sunday morning, felt the tears come to my eyes...