Word: preaching
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...Gore cranked up the modern brand of populism he has sounded on the trail for weeks. He aimed his message right at working families who "are trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college," he said. Even the New Democrats were urged to preach the new doctrine: "Being pro-growth and being aggressive at protecting consumers," running mate Joe Lieberman told TIME, "I think they go together." At Team Gore's convention-planning meeting on Wednesday morning, campaign chairman Bill Daley offered the ultimate reward: 100 floor passes to anyone who could get former...
...wouldn't go see four movies a week." Fametracker simply wants justice: "Do you know," says Giancarlo Esposito's audit, "how many underappreciated, underrecognized and underutilized actors--like Giancarlo Esposito--could be made famous simply by stripping Whoopi Goldberg of her fame and dispensing it to the deserving?" Preach...
Visualize this: Timothy Draper, the gonzo venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, swoops into a South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune...
...lazy or indifferent or overworked parents who can't meet with a teacher or help with homework. Progress on race comes in the most intimate gestures: Last December, as Elnora Littleton in Rosedale, Miss., tells it, she became the first black woman in those parts ever to preach at a white man's funeral. In this part of the country, she says, it is a milestone worth noting. "I made history," she says...
...They're struggling, and I help with the struggle because I preach, I teach--and boy, do I nag. I'm relentless about it. Everybody at home can make a decision to do or not do anything, but I nag. I have no power other than nagging...