Word: evangelists
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...people who can get the Microsoft juggernaut to change direction; he's known as one of the "Baby Bills," the company's young up-and-comers, and Gates often talks about how much the two of them have in common. Allard is what technology people call an evangelist: a charismatic guy who's so hysterically excited about a product, he gets other people excited by the sheer force of his psychic mojo...
...That is the moral responsibility that power bestows upon him: advocacy for the weak, frail and oppressed. Tafadzwa G. Gidi Stoke-on-Trent, England The Pope's Passing Your articles on Pope John Paul II painted a picture that was marvelously balanced [April 11]. An itinerant evangelist, hardheaded when it came to moral issues, John Paul II was a legend who gave a new face to old age and humbly accepted suffering, as Christ did. The best manner of appreciating what this man did is to follow in his footsteps. Kanene Benjamin Ezekwudo Enugu, Nigeria I am a Muslim living...
...students are a publicist's--or an evangelist's--dream. What do they like about the camp? Unity, they cry, and spirit. "We're psyched, we're hyper, we're excited," says Heather Toomey. Everyone's so supportive, the girls chime, and everything's so positive, and it's all so inspirational. Coming to this camp from a rival establishment, says Kellie Rich, 15, is like going "from darkness to light." The inner cheerleader cannot help flowering. "We're pretty spirited," says Andrea Bergman. "We've just got trouble with our moves...
...ornate state dining hall of Malacañnang Palace, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rose to salute President Ferdinand Marcos for standing tall against the specter of Communism, a compliment the right-wing U.S. evangelist had a few weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform...
...extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...