Word: patly
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...Like Reed, who gave the Christian Coalition a powerful national voice, Bauer has transformed the Family Research Council from an organization with a 3,000-member mailing list and a $200,000 budget into one with 455,000 members and a $14 million budget. And like Reed, who had Pat Robertson as his backer, Bauer has the widely followed radio evangelist Rev. James Dobson behind him. With Reed off the stage in Atlanta as a political consultant and Gingrich obsessing about tax cuts, Christian activists have reason to feel ignored. "They feel they helped elect a Republican majority and didn...
That's where Bauer comes in, although his tactics do limit his influence inside the Beltway. Gingrich doesn't consult him, and neither does Senate majority leader Trent Lott. Which is why, to the dismay of candidates like Pat Buchanan who hoped to woo his followers, Bauer is now talking about running for President. That would be the ultimate outsider's strategy...
...also her apparently profound conversion to Christianity. The latter has prompted an unlikely cohort of supporters to come to her defense at the 11th hour, including Deborah Thornton's brother and Jerry Lynn Dean's sister, the homicide detective who put her on death row, several former prosecutors, televangelist Pat Robertson and thousands of citizens. Her staunchest supporter is Dana Brown, the prison chaplain she met and married two years ago--a relationship that has never been consummated, even by a kiss, because death-row inmates are not allowed contact with visitors. Says Tucker's attorney, George ("Mac") Secrest...
After years of enduring tantalizing rumors that she would win the Nobel Prize for Literature, South African novelist Nadine Gordimer developed a pat response for nosy journalists: "I would say, 'If I ever win it, I'll let you know,' and I'd put the phone down." Then one day in 1991, while standing in the kitchen, Gordimer--whose piercingly authoritative phone manner reflects the high moral seriousness of such books as Burger's Daughter and July's People--received the call that ended the speculation. "I was, of course, delighted," she says. "Everybody must be when they...
...Blazing' Addled (EW) ? Mel Brooks disavows his comedy classic "Blazing Saddles" as edited for Pat Robertson's Family Channel. But a couple of racy jokes slipped by the censors...