Word: roberts
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...coma for a month. He also liked to drink and was once jailed for assaulting a writer with a baseball bat. Yet whether he cleared his intended target or behaved nicely was beside the point. Evel, who changed the spelling of his adopted name (he was born Robert) to clarify that he was not that bad a guy, uplifted a generation dazed by Vietnam and Watergate. America, he said, "needed somebody who would spill blood and break bones ... who wasn't phony." He made it a point to be that person. Knievel, who had incurable lung disease, died...
Evangelicalism worries chronically about its youth. Polling by the evangelically oriented Barna research group shows that at least half of regular churchgoers ages 16 to 29 think their church is too judgmental, too political and too negative about homosexuality. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow describes today's young adults as spiritual "tinkerers...
...ROBERT DUVALL...
...computers in the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel were compromised by programs that had originated in China. In June U.S. military officials said an attack from China had penetrated a computer system at the Pentagon--though nonclassified, it included a server used by the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Beijing denies that it is behind hacker attacks. Jiang Yu, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, described such reports as "wild accusations" and said they reflected a "cold war mentality...
...leading the pack. The poll, however, does indicate reluctance among young voters to identify with either major party—40 percent identified themselves as independent. “The poll suggests that young people are more alienated by the two parties than adults,” said Professor Robert J. Blendon, who directs the Harvard Opinion Research Program. Since the prior administration of the survey in March, the number of undecided likely Republican voters has risen. “Usually, as you get closer to the decision, the number of undecideds shrinks. It shows how competitive the race...