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...nearly three decades, I have found that it is not very difficult to distinguish between those who are truly sorry for their misbehavior and those who are only sorry they got caught. Most other Americans can tell the difference too. JOHN CAPANNA Pasadena, Calif. The simple words of the Rev. Jim Casy in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provide meaningful commentary on the Clinton-Lewinsky matter: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks...
...That speech, liberally sprinkled with quotes from scripture, played well to the President's audience of religious leaders. "He couldn't be more contrite," said the Presbyterian Rev. Fred Davie. "I love this man," enthused Rabbi Edward Cohn of Los Angeles. And as if to complete his portrayal of a perfectly penitent sinner, Clinton promised to seek "pastoral support and help from others." What could be missing from the apology this time round? Only the timing. With House members voting to release the Starr report just hours after the prayer breakfast, it wasn't too little, but it may have...
...charisma and successful leadership. But some of his colleagues now complain that the scandal has dried up contributions to the church and that Lyons has to go -- whether or not the feds lock him up. "To drag millions of people through all this mud is a shame," said the Rev. Charles Kenyotta Tuesday. "In the 118 years of our existence, we've never had a president this dumb." Joe Lieberman would say amen to that...
When NANSOOK HONG was 15, she was summoned to New York City to become the wife of the first son and heir of the REV. SUN MYUNG MOON and part of the Moonies' first family. Early one morning 14 years later, she fled the Moonie compound in a van in which her five children were hiding. In case all those mass weddings didn't tip us off that life as a Moonie is not very sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry...
DIED. THE REV. RAYMOND BROWN, 70, biblical scholar and author of more than 40 books who sought to illuminate the historical basis of the Gospels; in Redwood City, Calif...