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...years old, Clinton made the overt profession of his personal commitment to Christ, as required by his Baptist denomination, and was publicly baptized by being immersed in water. A year later, he asked a Sunday- school teacher to take him 50 miles into Little Rock so he could listen to the Rev. Billy Graham. When he got home, he put part of his allowance in an envelope and sent it to the preacher...
...defeat when two Pentecostal ministers sought him out at the Governor's mansion to offer love, comfort and prayer. Clinton's childhood friend Carolyn Staley recalls bumping into Clinton at a Little Rock shopping center around 1986 and being asked inside the Governor's Lincoln Continental to listen to a taped rendition of In the Presence of Jehovah by a Pentecostal singer. "He was spellbound. He was carried away with it," she says...
...real life, Eastwood knows how to play the self-deprecating good guy. Just listen to him explain why they wanted him to sign blank slips of paper rather than personalized greetings to Uncle Cappy in Port Clyde. "It's a business," he says. "They trade them." He pauses, grins, then adds, "You get one Steve McQueen for four of mine...
...could be revived at all, and of those who were, fully 95% stayed in the hospital, usually hooked up to life-support systems, until they died. Average cost: $150,000. The solution, say the Duke researchers, is to explain the consequences of resuscitation to seriously ill patients and listen to those who don't want heroic life-prolonging measures...
...CONGRESS REFUSED TO LISTEN to the voice of the country." In defiance of a conservative legislature that had steadily diminished his powers, Boris Yeltsin declared a "special order of rule" in a nationwide broadcast Saturday night. He announced that a referendum would be held April 25, in which Russians, weary of endless political infighting, would be asked whether they have confidence in him and whether they approve a new constitution. Yeltsin warned that the meeting of Congress two weeks ago was a rehearsal for "the restoration of power of the communist nomenklatura." Yeltsin's move drew immediate criticism from some...