Word: lifer
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There are three main paths in the U.S. today: Talent, Lifer and Mandarin. It's possible to think of American politics as an epic power struggle among the three paths; in this year's presidential campaign, Buchanan is the Talent path's candidate, Dole is the Lifer path's, and Clinton is the Mandarin path...
...much as a politician can be one, Bob Dole is a Lifer. He has represented Kansas in Congress continuously since 1960, sticking to it and through the years steadily moving upward. His virtues are the Lifer virtues of constancy, leadership, persistence and credit sharing. He is often charged with changing his views too readily. The honest answer to that, which he can never give, would be: Life isn't about what your views are; it's about what you get done. Having positions on issues, especially social issues like abortion and gay rights that aren't central to the ongoing...
...life movement is regarded as a group of religious fanatics. I have to confess that before I went to the clinic, the image I had in my mind of a pro-lifer was a decidedly negative one. I imagined this person as a deeply religious, Southern white male, probably uneducated, probably racist and fairly low on the socioeconomic ladder. But when I looked around myself at the vigil, I saw people from all walks of life. Men and women, Blacks and whites, young and old were gathered together in prayer...
...prison lifer who allegedly clubbed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and another murderer to death was charged with the crimes today, shortly after he said God instructed him to do it. Christopher J. Scarver -- a 25-year-old killer who once claimed to be the son of God -- was cleaning a prison locker room with Dahmer and another notorious Wisconsin killer, Jesse Anderson, on Nov. 28 when he clubbed both on the head with a 20-inch steel bar he'd stolen from the jail's weight room, authorities said. When a guard asked him why he was back from work...
...former minister and fervent pro-lifer is the suspect in the shotgun murder of a Pensacola, Fla. abortion-clinic doctor and his volunteer security escort. Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...