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...statements, personality flaws and boastful exaggerations on their resumes. Robertson and Jackson remain carefree riders on the political roller coaster, rarely having to worry about the bumps and twists that have buffeted Gary Hart, Joseph Biden and Michael Dukakis. As other candidates pepper their rivals with grapeshot, these two preacher- politicians continue to have immunity from all but the most tepid criticism...
...early political efforts is being investigated by the IRS. Michael McManus, a syndicated columnist specializing in religious issues, has documented $8.4 million that went from Robertson's tax-exempt Christian Broadcasting Network to now defunct "educational" groups like the Freedom Council, which allegedly paid for much of the TV preacher's initial political organizing. The Robertson campaign has not disputed McManus' figures, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. But Communications Director Constance Snapp says, "All monies given to the Freedom Council by CBN were perfectly legitimate from both a legal and ethical standpoint...
Some of the year' s most unforgettable photographs focus on a superpower summit, a stock- market panic and a congressional probe into a scandal that shook a government. Others are on a more human scale: a Pontiff embracing a young AIDS victim, a preacher fallen from grace, a wide- eyed little girl rescued from a well in Texas. All are presented in a 24- page portfolio...
...finished. "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," he later told the New York Times. "I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father." His father -- stepfather, actually -- had been a Harlem preacher so possessed by anger that he regularly beat his children. "His father's arm, rising and falling, might make him cry," Jimmy wrote in the autobiographical Mountain, "yet his father could never be entirely the victor, for John cherished something that his father could not reach. It was his hatred...
...walk in the park is the best cure for the blues," said seminar member Mark Primack, quoting a 19th-century preacher. "While parks are amenities in and of themselves, they are also a place for recreation and relaxation for the slum-dwellers," he added...