Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Preacher, rapper, Indian chief...10 extraordinary women...
...soul and jazz. A professional rapper for five years, she sees herself as a role model for young people, and she's as committed to raising consciousness as she is to having fun. "I try to slip in a few lines about something serious. But I'm not a preacher," says Latifah, a.k.a. Dana Owens. As she chants in her hit song Latifah's Law, "BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me, won't get you closer to the point you could undress me." The name Latifah, she notes, is Arabic for delicate and sensitive. As for calling...
...federal bankruptcy judge in Columbia, S.C. The judge instead approved a surprise bid of $7 million from another faith-healing charismatic, San Diego-based Morris Cerullo. The purchase brings new U.S. visibility to Cerullo, 58, who is far better known in the Third World. A flamboyant and apocalyptic preacher who converted from Judaism as a teenager, Cerullo runs revival meetings, Bible training courses and a daily TV show. He keeps secret how much money is raised for these ventures but boasts of being debt-free...
Interesting group to be talking about economic hardship. Fifteen were lawyers, one an engineer, two academics, a preacher, a couple of bankers, an economist, two career pols and a former businessman who is the President. He is one of the few in that fraternity who actually met a payroll, and that was 24 years ago. Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, 80, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has been in Congress since 1941. The average conferee has been cashing those beige federal paychecks like clockwork for better than 20 years: no worries about Chapter 11 bankruptcies, layoffs, plant closings, Social Security...
...INTERVIEW: The preacher and politics...