Word: methodists
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RELEASED. CANAAN BANANA, 64, ex-President of Zimbabwe, after serving a jail term for sodomy; in Harare. A Methodist minister and professor of theology, Banana committed the acts while serving a seven-year term as titular President after the nation gained independence in 1980. Convicted on 11 counts of sodomy, Banana was released after serving eight months of a one-year sentence, getting time off for good behavior...
...than a year in 1987 and 1988, he slept on a cot in Bush's father's New Hampshire campaign headquarters. After three years as Sununu's deputy, he served as Transportation Secretary, then spent the Clinton years as a lobbyist for the automakers. His wife Kathleene is a Methodist minister; they have three grown children...
...liberal for a Bush Cabinet, there are many other respected African-American politicians and scholars who might be willing to join it, provided they were given some real influence over policy. Some of my black Republican friends are pushing the Rev. Floyd Flake, pastor of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., who, despite spending six terms as a Democratic member of Congress, endorsed Republican Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York City. Flake, whose 10,000-member congregation supports an independent academy that offers an alternative to the area's lousy public schools, has emerged...
...liberal for a Bush Cabinet, there are many other respected African-American politicians and scholars who might be willing to join it, provided they were given some real influence over policy. Some of my black Republican friends are pushing the Rev. Floyd Flake, pastor of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., who, despite spending six terms as a Democratic member of Congress, endorsed Republican Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York City. Flake, whose 10,000-member congregation supports an independent academy that offers an alternative to the area's lousy public schools, has emerged...
...election workers had nearly all arrived by 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning at the College Avenue United Methodist Church in Somerville. The warden, Marsha E. Lavalle, coffee in hand, directed her staff of six to set up tables, post information for voters in the narrow hall leading to the ballot room and prepare themselves for 13 hours of democracy...