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...That year, the Bush-Cheney operation did more with religious outreach than any other campaign in history, deploying a massive parish- and congregation-level mobilization effort. In Florida alone, the G.O.P. employed a state chairwoman for Evangelical outreach who appointed a dozen regional coordinators around the state and designated outreach chairs in each of Florida's 67 counties. Every county chair, in turn, recruited between 30 and 50 volunteers to contact and register their Evangelical neighbors...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright excoriated President Bush’s foreign policy in front of a sold-out crowd at the First Parish Church on Monday evening. She said she had never “seen the world in such a mess” and referred to the United States as a brand that has been “severely tarnished...
...could resist these tales of the bumbling bunny Max and his bossy, eternally frustrated older sister Ruby? My favorite will always remain “Max’s Birthday,” in which the easily frightened Max runs away from his own birthday presents. 3. Peggy Parish, “Amelia Bedelia”: This series was the funny, smart predecessor to “Mary Poppins” and “The Nanny.” The books follow the woes of Amelia, maid for the wealthy Rogers family, who always interprets her employers?...
...suppose out of all the characters I interviewed,” journalist Tom Brokaw told a packed audience at First Parish Church on Monday, “my favorite line may have come from Arlo Guthrie: ‘It’s a good thing that the ‘60s are still controversial—that means nobody’s lost yet.”Brokaw, best known as the managing editor and anchor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years, is also the author of four best-selling books...
...sort of contagious depression is to blame for the cluster of suicides, the attention Gnosall has received in the British press is unlikely to help. The community has been "very distressed" by the negative portrayals of Gnosall in the media, says Cynthia Spencer, 64, a clerk to the local parish council. But amidst their grief, villagers are trying to heal. In memory of two of its deceased who used to ride their horses there, the community has christened a local path as "Forresters Lane." As it meanders toward the local cricket club, the dirt track passes a children's playground...