Word: revs
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...when Boston officially renamed its spruce tree a “holiday” tree, both Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell voiced objections, with Falwell threatening the city with a lawsuit. Even Donnie Hatt, the man who chopped down the tree, said that “Boston should just put ‘Return to Sender’ on it because we sent it as a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree...
...repeats a favorite phrase he got from Rev. Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church...
...Obama's Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech hit all the inspirational notes, with its pledge to bring Red America together with Blue America and its invocation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "fierce urgency of now." But it was also an indictment, not only of the Bush brand of politics but of the Clinton one as well. "We have a chance to bring the country together in a new majority to finally tackle problems that George Bush made far worse but that had festered long before George Bush ever took office," he declared. "Triangulating and poll-driven positions ... just...
...because "the issue at the heart of our drought is a lack of rain," she was wrong. The issue is a lack of water, and the best way to retain more is to consume less--with less lawn-sprinkling, car-washing, irrigating and sprawl. At Perdue's vigil, the Rev. Gil Watson acknowledged that "we have not been good stewards of our water," and even Perdue suggested that God was trying to "get our attention" for failing to do "all we could do in conservation...
...REV. AL SHARPTON, after Citadel Broadcasting Corp. announced that Don Imus would return to airwaves...