Word: john
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...Bush himself, then by those close to him. When the subject came up with their 5,000 closest friends, his parents suggested, ever so graciously, that they might not want to invest in any other candidates until they saw what young George was going to do. Michigan Governor John Engler, meanwhile, was recruiting a mighty power base among the nation's G.O.P. Governors, the only Republicans who got away with their shirts after the 1998 elections. From his nest down in Austin, campaign guru Karl Rove lured moneymen and operatives from every important state into a Virtual Smoke-Filled Room...
...father and uncle, money manager Jonathan Bush. Among them were drugstore tycoon Lewis Lehrman, who lost a bid for Governor of New York in 1982; venture capitalist William H. Draper III, who would become president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank during the Reagan Administration; and Celanese CEO John Macomber, who later landed the same post...
Picture an 86-year-old man clutching a walker as he shuffles down a prison hallway. Not exactly the usual image of a dangerous killer locked up for the good of society. Chances are, it's not what the judge envisioned either when he sentenced John Bedarka, a Pennsylvania coal miner, to life without parole for shooting his wife's lover to death 30 years ago. But Bedarka is still in prison at Laurel Highlands correctional institution in Somerset, Pa., in frail health, severely depressed and a threat...
...first, a year-long 2000 birthday party for the man who started it all. The first day of the new millennium ?- and you don?t hear John Paul, the first celebrity pope, splitting holy hairs about January 1, 2000, not technically being the millennium ?- is the kickoff of the Jubilee, a celebration that might have been just another musty Vatican ceremonial if Karol Wojtyla hadn?t come along. Under John Paul II, thanks to countless hours and countless lire, it?s more like a worldwide, millennium?s-end sales event. "He?s determined to make it a time for conversion...
...With the century ticking to a close, its most sensational, hard-charging, consciousness-raising pope is growing weak. Early on in his papacy, a colleague predicted he?d be around for the turning of the Big Odometer, and John Paul took it -? and the Jubilee that would mark it -- very seriously. The next 20 years, from his precedent-bending inaugural speech from the Vatican balcony to his two-week pilgrimage to thank his first flock, were a run-up to this, a global celebration of humanity and the faith 1 billion of them hold dear. He worked tirelessly to bring...