Word: gospels
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...Matthew MacInnis '02, a foreign refugee living in Lowell House, prefers Quantas for his travel. When not writing endpapers, he rails against Palm Pilots and preaches the gospel of the Newton, which was years ahead of its time...
...extent that either of the two contenders had a message, McCain's was working better. Bush took it as gospel that He Who Promises the Bigger Tax Cut Wins. His $483 billion plan was supposed to trump the cautious McCain, who talked more about paying down the debt than paying off the voters. But he hadn't bargained on pinch-fisted Yankees like the man at the Nashua Chamber of Commerce breakfast who stood up and punctured the theory. "I'm tired of all this tax-cut nonsense," the questioner told the Governor. "Can we stop it, please?" To which...
...Everett is attracted to the incident of the stolen cross and befriends Father Pemberton, who happens to be in the midst of a spiritual crisis. He has lost faith not in God but rather in the fictions that humans have spun around him. "The biblical stories," he says, "the Gospel stories, were the original understandings, they were science and religion, they were everything, they were all anyone had. But they didn't write themselves. We have to acknowledge the storytellers' work...
...ENTERTAINMENT] Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, gospel singer Irma Thomas, Peanuts characters...
Over the next few days--in Sioux City, Mason City, Dubuque, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Muscatine and Washington--no fewer than 120 people attended each event to hear Forbes' anti-Washington, pro-life gospel. In 1996 Forbes was a one-trick pony with the flat tax. Now he, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes lead with morality. The Forbes people pray that one of those two doesn't become this year's Buchanan, whose 1996 campaign had Bible thumpers jumping out of their pews in the Hawkeye State, where a popular billboard reads GOD IS PRO-LIFE...