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...movement's fresh face, the choirboy to the rescue, a born-again Christian with a fine sense of the secular mechanics of American politics. His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes as support for tax cuts, has helped make the Christian Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots organizations in American politics. Its 1.6 million active supporters and $25 million annual budget, up from 500,000 activists and a $14.8 million budget just two years ago, hold a virtual veto on the Republican nominee for President, and will exert an extraordinary influence over who will occupy the Oval Office...
...mobilize white Evangelicals in the South and border states-many of whom had once supported former President Jimmy Carter-against Washington's perceived intrusiveness. The Moral Majority gained legitimacy, along with White House access, during the Reagan years, but Falwell neglected to build real foundations at the grass roots. So other groups were formed to fill the void, including Pat Robertson's Freedom Councils. After Robertson ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1988, he converted his huge mailing lists into the Christian Coalition and turned its operations over to Reed, then 27. Reed sought to build...
Kansas City seemed the place to be for Opening Day, if only because the twin virtues of Ripken and real grass harken back to a time before the hideous words work stoppage entered sports parlance. Unfortunately for the Royals, only 24,170 fans felt that way, some 16,000 fewer than usually attend Opening Day. It was drizzly, to be sure, but the weather wasn't as off-putting as the baseball climate. The game lost many fans during the bitter "work stoppage," and there were similarly disappointing crowds elsewhere last week...
Perhaps the only consolation of the strike was that it gave the Royals a head start on replacing their artificial surface with real grass. One of the great ironies of our time-all right, a slight exaggeration-is that the 66-year-old Toma, a groundkeeper so renowned he has his own autographed rake, presided over a carpet all these years. "I count this as one of the greatest days of my life," he said before the game. Indeed it was Toma, arriving in a pink Cadillac and dressed in white tails, who threw out the first ball...
Alas, the no-hitter was lost in the eighth, but the fans still went home happy, albeit wet, after the Royals' 5-1 win. They were talking about Appier's stuff and Cal's streak and Goodwin's catch and the new grass. As Ripken says, smells like baseball...