Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately for him, he had a lot of those. A major Democratic Party fund raiser, who with his father gave $195,000 in 1992-94, Opperman enjoyed a decades-old friendship with Al Gore and served as campaign-finance co-chairman for California Senator Dianne Feinstein in 1994. At a Democratic fund raiser that fall, Opperman took the opportunity to collar Bill Clinton and, as Democratic officials told TIME, asked him point-blank, "Can you get the Justice Department off my back?" Opperman recalls seeing Clinton but denies asking for a favor. He remembers how agitated...
...alleged victim's parents, "I do not know if the advisor knew or was friends with the family of the charged student, but the University does not require the advisor to be impartial and the students usually choose a professor they know well. I have to assume that their friendship would not disqualify her participation as I assume others would not view my friendship with [the woman's family] as compromising my judgment as President...
...other half of the Two was the nurse who attended him, Bonnie Lu Nettles, then 44. According to Applewhite's sister, it was Nettles who told him "that he had a purpose, that God kept him alive." "Their relationship wasn't like a romantic thing, more like a friendship, a platonic thing," says Nettles' daughter Terrie, interviewed by CNN Impact's Henry Schuster and TIME's Patrick E. Cole. But Bonnie Lu Nettles, who dabbled in astrology, believed it was fated in the stars. Says her daughter: "A couple of spiritualists said that there was going to be this...
...China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable connection with another African guerrilla bush fighter, Yoweri Museveni, who is now the President of Uganda. That friendship would one day be critically important...
...mulled over these feelings, I began to consider the importance of camaraderie in campus religious organizations. I understand that these groups have a sensitive role to play at a university campus like ours. They have to provide a forum for spirituality, learning and friendship. However, I have come to realize that, for me, it all has to begin with friendship. Maybe it's because I'm a first-year, still floating around campus, desperately looking for others who share my interests. But I truly believe that, at its essence, a religious group needs to establish mutual trust before...