Word: leader
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Administrators of The Family have been documented using dangerous rhetorical devices to compel the loyalty of followers. Doug Coe, its leader, has compared the blind devotion demanded by Jesus—and thus by one of its interlocutors on Earth, The Family, to that demanded by Adolf Hilter, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, thus legitimizing the latter tyrants. Such untempered comparison is irresponsible, dangerous, and wrong. It leads to such invidious situations as The Family’s accused support for Ugandan politician David Bahati, who is proposing a bill containing the death penalty for HIV-infected people...
...breakfast was the best way for the president to disseminate this view to the exact people who needed to hear it the most. If Obama had boycotted the breakfast, The Family’s shady and inappropriate tenets would perhaps never have been chastised so publicly by the leader of our nation...
...third straight day, about 230,000 federal employees were forced to stay home - a stoppage that Office of Personnel Management director John Berry has said costs taxpayers an estimated $100 million per day in labor that workers are unable to perform. With forecasts darkening on Tuesday, House majority leader Steny Hoyer canceled votes for the rest of the week, while the Senate called off votes slated for Wednesday. For what might be the first time ever, says Fred Beuttler, the House's deputy historian, the chamber's cafeteria was forced to close. Major hearings on Capitol Hill were postponed, including...
...work with Obama. On the other hand, Republicans do not want to grant Democrats any major legislative victories before the November elections. "We had a good meeting with the President, and, what I'd like to emphasize is there are some areas of potential agreement," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said in an e-mailed statement, after meeting with President Tuesday. Outside the White House, however, McConnell offered a different message in person. "What we need to do is start over," he said about health care reform. "Why would they want to keep pushing something that the public is overwhelmingly...
...Europe could certainly benefit from better relations with Beijing, which has been dismissive of E.U. diplomatic requests and disdainful of European attempts to be more of a global leader in recent years. In 2008, China canceled a summit with E.U. leaders after French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. Then, last December, China executed a British citizen for drug-smuggling - the first European to be executed in China in 50 years - despite condemnations from the E.U. and pleas from supporters that he be spared because of his mental illness. And at last year...