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...above scandal on the strength of charisma and successful leadership. But some of his colleagues now complain that the scandal has dried up contributions to the church and that Lyons has to go -- whether or not the feds lock him up. "To drag millions of people through all this mud is a shame," said the Rev. Charles Kenyotta Tuesday. "In the 118 years of our existence, we've never had a president this dumb." Joe Lieberman would say amen to that...
Anyone trying to recover in the wake of last week's visit by Hurricane Bonnie probably isn't feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn't the first thing you think of when your living room is full of mud, your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on end. But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this magnitude, residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia got off remarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property damage was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained largely intact...
...incumbent John Engler. "He's a cheater, a liar and a coward," said Fieger. "He's a man of mediocre intelligence who's never done anything in life but suck off the public trough." The Engler camp, meanwhile, is clinging desperately to higher ground. "Fieger can roll in the mud by himself," says John Truscott, an Engler spokesman...
...Lewinsky scandal held him hostage," says Tumulty, "and if it wasn't still hot these days, he'd be out the door tomorrow." As it is, McCurry will spend the next few months preparing his well-regarded protege, deputy press secretary Joe Lockhart, in the fine art of keeping mud off a troubled President -- without getting too much of it on yourself...
...like it that the wood and mud-brick houses of towns have yet to become drab, concrete cities, that the villagers have not traded their packhorses for personal cars, that food is still cooked in hot pots over live, burning coals, that the women still wear their brightly colored headdresses and ethnic dress. Perhaps even the fact that I cannot access the latest international newspapers has been therapeutic for this would-be journalist...