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...margin. The primary system tends to push candidates to the extremes, and Bush seems willing to go with the tide. To rebuild his base of support after his New Hampshire loss, Bush made a strong swerve to the right in South Carolina on issues like abortion. Evangelist Pat Robertson stumped for him in the Michigan race. Even McCain is polishing his conservative credentials, emphasizing yesterday that he is a "proud pro-life conservative Republican." It would be very unfortunate if the coming closed primaries allow party regulars to choose among weaker candidates who are willing to pander to the right...
...true that George W. Bush, Steve Forbes and John McCain are all from what students of comparative religion call the boarding-school wing of the Episcopal church, Bush now belongs to a Methodist congregation. He apparently underwent a denominational transformation after a spiritual encounter with Billy Graham, an evangelist preacher whose vision of Hell is a world in which he does not get to play golf with the President. It's unclear whether Steve Forbes will continue his financial support of an effort to persuade members of his own congregation to abandon Planned Parenthood and blockade an abortion clinic with...
...mirrored by longstanding cultural traditions--family, history and home. For the most part, the South disapproves of Northerners' fast-paced lifestyles, harsh winter weather and abrupt manner. And in turn, many Northerners stereotype residents of the South, lumping them into one mint julep-sippin', tobacco-spittin', slow-talkin' conservative evangelist...
...market--the larger computers known as servers--Linux is already a threat to Microsoft, says Eric Raymond, a Linux evangelist. Linux runs on nearly a third of all servers, and according to Raymond, it will soon make similar inroads in the consumer market. His reasoning: as computer prices spiral downward, the price PC manufacturers pay to license Windows grows proportionately, cutting into their meager margins. PC makers will "start defecting en masse to Linux," Raymond predicts, "because they can no longer make money partnered with Microsoft...
...breathtaking and awe-inspiring experience to have witnessed the greatest evangelist of our time and one of the most decent people to have walked the earth," said Dan E. Fernandez...