Word: reed
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...fully understand the workings of Washington, it doesn't always pay to stick close to Capitol Hill. It was in a tiny church in suburban South Carolina that senior correspondent Jeff Birnbaum, who reported and wrote this week's cover story on Ralph Reed, fully realized just how Reed's Christian Coalition has become a force to be reckoned with in the U.S. Congress and the Republican Party. "This was a little church in the sticks," says Jeff. "But it had a satellite dish so that it could receive transmissions of Reed's training show, Christian Coalition Live...
...executive director of the Christian Coalition, Reed is master of a much more powerful and effective machine than is almost any presidential candidate. By mobilizing eager volunteers down to the precinct (and local church) level and handing out 33 million voter guides -- often in church pews -- prior to last November's election, the Coalition is credited with providing the winning margin for perhaps half the Republicans' 52-seat gain in the House of Representatives and a sizable portion of their nine-seat pickup in the Senate. As a result, Ralph Reed is the man to see among Republican lawmakers...
...Sunday, Ralph Reed rests -- at least he tries to. But on the night of April 30, his two-year-old, Christopher, lay awake for hours, badly sunburned from a picnic, leaving Reed little time for sleep in the modern, red brick house in Chesapeake, Virginia, that he and his wife Jo Anne recently purchased. Reed struggles for time with his family. "I get home as often as I can, even if it's only for a day," says the 33-year-old father of three. Still, the executive director of the formidable Christian Coalition has another mission, and at dawn...
Even as he courts centrist voters, however, Reed has been determinedly pressing Republican politicians to move toward the Coalition's right-wing policies. Last week the Coalition lobbied hard against the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Next week the Christian Coalition and many of its Republican allies will unveil their sequel to the Contract with America: the Contract with the American Family. Meanwhile, presidential candidates are dropping in on Reed for counsel. Bob Dole's attack on the morals of Hollywood was the result of consultations with Reed. Lamar Alexander, who last summer held that Washington should...
Henri Cole, Briggs-Copeland lecturer in poetry, is the professor of two creative writing classes, English Cpr and English Cqr. Cole, a former director of the Academy of American Poets, taught at Reed, Columbia and Yale before coming to Harvard in 1994. He was recently awarded the Prix de Rome for 1995, and will spend the next academic year at the American Academy in Rome before returning to Harvard in the fall of 1996. His third book of poems,The Look of Thing, was published by Knopf in January...