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...income, providing a steady flow of gifts -- commonly $10 or $20 a contributor. The names and addresses of donors are carefully preserved in computer banks and used in direct-mail donation pitches, another major source of ministry income. At the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries headquarters, for example, workers used to extract some $2.5 million in monthly donations from occasional donors. That amount has now been cut in half...
Born in Linares, a village in southern Spain, young Andres briefly studied the violin. But his teacher was a harsh martinet, and Segovia was unmoved by the sound of the instrument. "The violinists and cellists I heard in the Granada of that time seemed to extract catlike wails from the violin and asthmatic gasps from the cello," he wrote in Segovia, his 1976 memoir. "But even in the hands of common people, the guitar retained that beautiful plaintive and poetic sound...
Interviewing Larry Guterman is like trying to yank wisdom teeth. It's hard enough to get him simply to talk about himself. It's virtually impossible to extract anything serious from his mouth...
From the determination with which he ate his hot dog, to the Super Bowl Ring-sized finger, to the agility he showed reaching into his pocket to extract the money for his greens fee, he had the tell-tale signs of a champion. But I did notice something odd; he seemed to favor his right rotator cuff when he lifted his golf bag. I wasn't surprised when, three years later, an injury to that self-same area knocked Jimbo out for the season. McMahon slipped out the door ostensibly because his tee time had arrived; of course...
...lawmakers and the prosecutor agree on how to extract the testimony: grant limited immunity, which would protect Poindexter and North from being prosecuted on the basis of their statements. If they then refused to talk, they could face imprisonment for contempt of Congress. But the Senate and Walsh disagree over timing: the Senators want to expedite their Iranscam hearings. Walsh has asked that immunity be delayed for at least 90 days to give him time to build a case to indict Poindexter and North...