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There is something to be said for Clinton's playing the race and religion card, in a modified Swaggart mode. Risky, but consider: Clinton appears on TV flanked by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Billy Graham, the reverends arranged like pastoral bookends in full supportive body English. Clinton, voice husky, sincere, speaks to the camera about the weekend of soul searching he has just spent with Jesse and Billy; speaks about his brother's drug addiction and about (here goes) his own long troublesome addiction, which is sex; subtly blames his childhood, the alcoholic home; implies the sins...
SWORN IN. MARTIN LUTHER KING III, 40, eldest son of the late civil rights leader; as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; in Maryland. The younger King, who replaced the Rev. Joseph Lowery, vowed to reinvigorate the group his father helped found...
...contrast, if the thyroid works too hard, a condition called hyperthyroidism, it can rev your body up to the point that your hands tremble. You have trouble falling asleep, and your heart quivers in a dangerous pattern called atrial fibrillation. In an extreme case, your eyes will bulge...
...their prime minister will be selected by the leaders of the LDP's numerous factions, using their own private power-and-favor calculus. Meanwhile, voters are displaying little willingness to endure the tough measures -- such as pulling the props from under inefficient industries -- that economists believe are required to rev up Asia's engine again. And with Japan's whole political system stacked against radical change, it may take an extraordinary leader to make the necessary hard choices -- someone the smoky back room isn't designed to produce...
...puts it in a place where it will be hidden." Now, y'all know the queen got her start singing in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. People say she left the sacred for the secular, forsook gospel for pop. But, truth is, as her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, said, "Truth is, Aretha hasn't ever left the church...