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McKinley is one of the leaders of an effort to do away with the frenzied activity and extravagant gift-giving of a commercial Christmas. Through a savvy viral video and marketing effort, the so-called Advent Conspiracy movement has exploded. Hundreds of churches on four continents and in at least 17 countries have signed up to participate. The Advent Conspiracy video has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, and the movement boasts nearly 45,000 fans on Facebook. Baseball superstar Albert Pujols is a supporter - he spoke at a church event in St. Louis, Mo., to endorse...
...thus far. She is known for taking only a handful of queries after campaign events before being whisked away, and her press handlers aren't shy about interrupting her conversations with journalists. Her opponents scream about the fact that she won't debate them; they have already faced off four times, while Whitman has committed to just one debate in March. "She's clearly one of those people who likes to study and study an issue, really have an in-depth comfort zone with something, and then move forward," says Jon Fleischman, a vice chairman, south, of the California Republican...
...monumental work still found in libraries and bookstores around the world. What makes his endeavor more remarkable was that it was completed during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when scholars were targeted for their interest in Chinese tradition and foreign learning. Yang, who died Nov. 23 at 94, spent four years in prison at the height of the upheaval, as did his wife Gladys, whom he met while studying at Oxford in the late 1930s...
...family," she said in a statement. The split doesn't come as a surprise: the former Lazard bigwig conspicuously declined to stand by her husband while he disclosed his dalliance, rebuked him several times during interviews and moved out of the governor's residence along with the couple's four children. It's a safe bet that plenty more publicity will attend her next move. Sanford, who drew plaudits for her handling of the scandal and whose memoir is slated for publication next spring, was named this month by Barbara Walters as one of 2009's 10 most fascinating people...
...fellow investment banker Mark Sanford at a 1987 beach party in the Hamptons. They married two years later and soon returned to his home state of South Carolina, where he began a real estate business and the family grew to include four sons. (Read a two-minute bio of Mark Sanford...