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Nearly two decades after exploding onto the American scene as the powerful voice of religious conservatives, the Christian Coalition is showing its age. The group, founded in 1989 by Pat Robertson to leverage the political influence in Washington of millions of conservative Christians, is most famous for lobbying Congress and for what it calls nonpartisan - opponents say slanted - voter guides used by followers to make decisions at the polls...
...generation ago, before the Christian Coalition rose from the ashes of Rev. Pat Robertson's failed bid for the U. S. presidency and the demise of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority (which disbanded but has recently been revived by Falwell), evangelicals considered politics too worldly for their attention. More than any other group, the coalition mobilized the religious right and gave evangelicals a taste of their potential clout on such issues as abortion and prayer in schools. But as most large political organizations eventually do, the coalition, which has recently weathered declining membership, shakeups in several state chapters and financial...
Wallpaper is enjoying a resurgence, helped along by husband-and-wife design team Kyra and Robertson Hartnett. Frustrated by their inability to find contemporary designs in wallpaper and textiles, the pair set to work creating their own wall coverings and textiles. Their company, twenty2, with headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., produces collections that illustrate their sophisticated yet playful take on color palettes and patterns. The papers and textiles are all hand-printed, and customers can even select colors to match their own design schemes...
...June, 2005 report, University planners identified the reduction of “the effect of Soldiers Field Road…between the campus, the community and the river” as a main priority of the Allston project. In a separate report published in the same month, Cooper, Robertson & Partners, the planning firm commissioned by Harvard to form preliminary plans for Allston development, suggested the “partial depression of Soldiers Field Road” as a “long-term” solution to the parkway’s obstruction of pan-Charles connectivity. Construction...
...Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard—if those folks had been on the agenda, maybe there would have been more of a bipartisan response,” quipped one confirmed participant, incoming representative Steve I. Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat who won failed Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr.’s House seat...