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Name recognition can make all the difference in an election--especially when the name is Jesse Jackson. The eldest son of the famous preacher, Jesse Jr. won a special election last December after Mel Reynolds' forced resignation and with Thomas Somer's August withdrawal is now without major party opposition. THE ISSUES...
Meanwhile, word of the seminar spread. A New York Times story claimed that it offered "the best conversations in New York City." One day a former Baptist preacher from Texas dropped by. Like Visotzky, Bill Moyers was not particularly nourished by the picture of the patriarchs he had encountered in Sunday school and seminary. "The figures were drawn for moral instruction and therefore had to be flawless individuals who ought to be in stained-glass windows," he says. Sometime after attending Visotzky's supper, Moyers found himself sitting in his apartment at 3 a.m., having just read Genesis straight through...
...book and an upcoming NBC Nightly News feature will give the Harvard preacher a national audience...
Gomes said NBC decided to profile him because of his unusually long tenure as a college preacher...
...become the order of the day, Faye Wattleton seems almost a relic. The telegenic and controversial head of Planned Parenthood from 1978 to 1992, Wattleton winces at phrases like "common ground" when applied to the subject of reproductive rights for women. For Wattleton, whose mother was a traveling Fundamentalist preacher for the Church of God, right and wrong--like heaven and hell--are very clearly defined...