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...Thornburgh's most recent snafu involved George Bush's declaration of a stepped-up war against savings and loan crooks. Just days later, Assistant Attorney General Edward Dennis Jr., a key player in the S&L prosecutions, quit. Dennis' bail-out was only the latest in a series of high-level shake-ups at Justice...
...discovered he liked making people feelbetter, and dabbled in massage for two yearsbefore he quit work and got licensed inGainesville, Fla. He has since traveled across thecountry offering his services...
Stumping for the White House, John F. Kennedy promised voters he would leave office if his Roman Catholicism ever interfered with his political duties. Last week New York's John Cardinal O'Connor proclaimed that Kennedy was wrong: Catholics should fight, not quit. In a strongly worded twelve-page statement published in the archdiocesan weekly, the Cardinal declared that Catholic officeholders had an obligation to support their church's moral teachings -- especially on abortion. Failure to do so, he said, merited excommunication...
...Nachtwey quit his job as a photographer for a New Mexico newspaper and went to Northern Ireland. Since then he has photographed 15 wars and civil conflicts, winning numerous prizes for his work. That's why he was the natural choice to accompany senior correspondent Alessandra Stanley on a four-nation journey for this week's story on child warriors...
...kindergarten teacher for migrant workers' children in Florida. He would stay up all night playing poker, he admits shyly, and when his class took its nap, he would take one too, on his very own mat, sometimes waking up long after the mammas had collected the kids. Tomko quit teaching and became a world-class poker player. But now all he can think of is getting back to Florida to play baseball with his three sons. Is that why he lost today? He's worried that he isn't worried, another good man gone wrong...