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Other Protestant churches are carefully watching developments in the Episcopal Church. "In the past the struggle around homosexuality in one denomination has presented a template for the struggle in other churches," says the Rev. Eileen Lindner, a historian with the National Council of Churches. Lindner points out that Presbyterians, United Methodists and Evangelical Lutherans all have "substantial, active, gay faithful caucuses" that now will push to re-examine the question of gay clergy. In fact, Reverend Wright, who escorted "ecumenical observers" from other churches at last week's conference, said the prevailing view was that "a logjam had been broken...
Hartford’s decisive victory over the Huskies was powered by the four-goal effort of junior Katharina Lindner, who set a new career-high in the process. Lindner has six goals and five assists this year, needing just one point to break into the all-time top-10 in scoring for Hartford...
...Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat. The U.S. stance, meanwhile, seems to have been designed almost solely by hundreds of thousands of soft-money contributions to the Democrats made by Chiquita owner Carl Lindner...
...People like Wasserman were multimillionaires before they got into politics. McAuliffe has done it the other way, using his political contacts to become a multimillionaire. In 1995 he acquired a bankrupt home-building business in Orlando, Fla., with the help of American Financial Corp. after soliciting its owner, Carl Lindner, for the D.N.C. "People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business," he says. Now that he's worth tens of millions, he says he's in a position to meet the donors as peers, exchange stock tips with them and serve on their boards...
...Money & Politics" has taken 10 months (and counting) of investigation, more than 100 interviews and digging through more than 25,000 pages of documents, many never before released. Other reporters have explored pieces of Lindner's influence in Washington, but no one has zeroed in on his campaign donations and explored the consequences in this kind of detail...