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...Jakes outstrips the movement's parameters. All Pentecostals know their Bible; fewer have the theological chops to casually drop a quick exegesis of Romans 1-8, perhaps Scripture's thorniest patch, into a sermon in order to explain how its author, the Apostle Paul, fostered cultural diversity in the early church. Jakes does...
...vocals a few days ago. Now Dre is icing the cake, playing the track from beginning to end dozens of times, nodding his head to the rhythm and making tiny adjustments as he goes. "More reverb here," he says. The technician tweaks the reverb on a two-second patch of Rhymes' voice. The track plays again. "Now it sounds like he's in the Grand Canyon." When the level is adjusted to his satisfaction, Dre calls Rhymes in New York. "I don't think we should add any more to it. Nah. All the breakdowns and all the instruments sound...
...hear from a number of people." Top Democratic strategists and fund raisers blame Gore's loss not on the Florida recount or the Supreme Court but on Gore himself--his lame performance, inept campaign and stubborn mishandling of Bill Clinton. Indeed, party leaders on both coasts say Gore must patch his rocky relations with Clinton. But those close to Gore still defend his distance from the scandal-plagued President, and say they hope these next four years further separate the two in the public mind. One source close to Clinton says the former President would support Gore, "but that presupposes...
...After a brief discussion, we asked him if we could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion off the leash and began wrestling with it on a small patch of grass. An aide fetched a plastic chair and placed it in the middle of the lawn so the minister could sit and be interviewed while playing with the lion...
...Nancy Kariuki began using skin-lightening creams aged 18 after she developed a rash on her face. "After a few weeks I noticed where the patch had been was very smooth," says Kariuki, now 30, who works as a production assistant in a Nairobi advertising company. She began applying it every night to her whole face. Her skin grew lighter but every time she was exposed to too much sun "my face went red and three weeks later it would all peel off." Friends told her that the cream may be dangerous but she persisted. Even her maid started...