Word: revs
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...order” her services. She is raped each time she is called a whore, each time a defense attorney reveals something about her personal life, and each time she is used as political pawn by a “well intentioned” person of authority. The Rev. Jackson announced that his Rainbow Coalition will be paying the tuition of the accuser for the remainder of her education, no matter how the case turned out, “so she will never ... again have to stoop that low to survive.” While politically astute, this...
...many people who view Ryan as a "political prostitute," as former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm described him while testifying about how Ryan had allegedly pilfered $100,000 when he was the state chair of Gramm's reelection campaign in 1996. Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered that the driver of the truck...
...Nagin?s new populism was on vivid display, however, at a recent rally and march organized by Jackson?s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to protest the April 22 primary. Thousands turned out to cheer the mayor, Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who equated the New Orleans election to the disenfranchisement efforts against blacks during the Civil Rights era. (Comedian Bill Cosby was welcomed too until he excoriated the crowd for the city?s high murder rate, drug-dealing ways and teenage pregnancies.) Nagin supporters like Candy Williams, who lost her New Orleans home in Katrina, vowed to get far-flung family...
...Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams in the 1970s, is certain to further complicate matters. Unionist leaders like the Rev. Ian Paisley say they have doubts about whether the IRA has genuinely laid down its weapons, and maintained that the killing "has put a dark cloud" over the pending talks...
...Iraq's other neighboring countries. Khalilzad must insist that al-Hakim use his influence on behalf of the interests of all the Iraqi people, the region and the world. Alex Ohan Toronto Forgiveness Forestalled Simon Robinson's essay "Is forgiveness always divine?" [March 20] discussed the decision of the Rev. Julie Nicholson, an Anglican vicar who lost her daughter in a London suicide bombing, to resign her position as a parish priest because she is unable to forgive the suicide bomber. She is only one of millions who cannot forgive. I am one of them. As a survivor...