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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital as a religious center. Yet Washington may boast more Christian prayer groups per square block than any other town outside the Bible Belt. What makes D.C.'s prayer groups special is not only their growing numbers but also the prominent political figures -- Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn, Marilyn Quayle, Susan (Mrs. James) Baker -- who are among the active members. Observes Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, a veteran of the movement: "People are always surprised to learn that there are spiritual people here in the Sodom and Gomorrah of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inside The Bible Beltway | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...height of the Viet Nam buildup, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service as a remedy for the inequities of the military draft. Now, amid the first stirrings of a rebirth of altruism, the idea has been revived by congressional Democrats eager to inspire what Georgia Senator Sam Nunn calls "a new spirit of citizenship and civic obligation in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gap Between Will and Wallet | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Last week Nunn and an ideologically diverse group of Democratic legislators kicked off the most ambitious drive for national service in more than a generation. They envision a Citizens Corps that would enlist as many as 1 million young high school graduates to spend at least a year working for $100 a week in places like hospices and homeless shelters in their local communities. The volunteers would also have the option of entering the armed forces at wage rates significantly below those of regular soldiers. The national-service proposal -- originally developed by sociologist Charles Moskos and the Democratic Leadership Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gap Between Will and Wallet | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

CHESS London's frantic multimedia hit was rewritten for Broadway as a tender, doom-struck musical meditation on how East-West politics crush individuals. Trevor Nunn's trademark cinematic staging gave narrative clout to the best rock score ever produced for the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of '88: Theater | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Roughly put, there are two schools of thought. One, articulated by Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jackson Problem | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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