Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shield that Bush was proposing. In the quarter-century since he had put Safeguard out of its misery, Rumsfeld had become convinced that national missile defense was not only technologically possible but also essential to America's national security. He had become its chief architect, salesman and even evangelist...
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...even the most optimistic estimates of what might be recovered from anwr would only briefly delay the inevitable crisis. Selling the family jewels for another fix may hold a momentary attraction for the junkie in the throes of withdrawal, but it is always a bad idea. Perhaps our evangelist-in-chief should propose a 12-step program instead. EARL P. JONES Redding, Calif...
...stern Puritanism of eastern American origins. One of the few intentionally funny paintings in the show--there are plenty that look funny but weren't meant to be--is Barse Miller's 1932 view of a downtown temple in L.A. over which floats the apparition of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist and sexpot, flanked by figures of Venus, her lover in a straw hat, and little top-hatted putti clutching sacks of dollars like teeny refugees from a Popular Front cartoon of bosses...
...week, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge James F. McHugh overturned a Cambridge city ordinance granting healthcare benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual city employees. The suit in which McHugh ruled was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Virginia-based law firm founded by noted evangelist Pat Robertson, which claimed that the domestic partnerships recognized by the Cambridge ordinance were "a Trojan Horse for same-sex marriage." However, while McHugh rejected this claim, noting that the Cambridge statute intended only "to provide a better life for those who daily serve its citizens," an archaic 1955 Massachusetts...