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...longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that, by 1997, a whole group of them in California decided they couldn't wait any longer and left our soon-to-explode planet early. By 1999, Pat Robertson was selling tickets to seminars where people were taught how to store beans and corn in separate barrels sealed with nitrogen packs. He apparently figured God had traded in fire and brimstone for the more subtle New Year's computer...
...Jesse Jackson b) Fidel Castro c) Pat Robertson d) Warren Christopher...
...regular on two TV networks (TBN and BET), has generated a stream of other novel gambits. He has cut a Grammy-nominated gospel album, beamed his sermons by satellite into prisons in 15 states and built a $32 million megachurch in a depressed part of Dallas. Al Gore, Pat Robertson and Coretta Scott King are among his fans. George W. Bush calls Jakes' social programs models for a church-state partnership...
...Superior Court Judge James F. McHugh overturned a Cambridge city ordinance granting healthcare benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual city employees. The suit in which McHugh ruled was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Virginia-based law firm founded by noted evangelist Pat Robertson, which claimed that the domestic partnerships recognized by the Cambridge ordinance were "a Trojan Horse for same-sex marriage." However, while McHugh rejected this claim, noting that the Cambridge statute intended only "to provide a better life for those who daily serve its citizens," an archaic 1955 Massachusetts statute limiting...
...prove it. For starters, Long-Term Capital's spectacular demise in 1998 pointed to trouble for globetrotting hedge-fund hotshots. Soros and Tiger Management's Julian Robertson both ran aground this year. Indeed, the average hedge fund has been underperforming the S&P 500 for four years. The hedgies, it seems, make investing a lot tougher than it needs...