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...coal scooper into a cataract to rescue miner Mark Popernack, who was stranded on the other side. It is Fogle who is acknowledged to have kept his crew focused, adamantly refusing to let them give in to despair. If anyone epitomized their fierce solidarity, which Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker captured in the phrase "Nine for nine" before he had even met them, Fogle...
...bands while doing time; the rocker-inmates include murderers, rapists, armed robbers and other unappealing types. vh1says the idea was to demonstrate the rehabilitative power of music, but after a Pennsylvania woman saw her daughter's killer in a promotional ad for the show, she called Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker. He promised that in the future the state's department of corrections will notify victims' families if an offender will be seen...
...newly formed Office of Homeland Security. Ridge, who is expected to take on the cabinet-level post without any opposition, will oversee government-wide efforts to defend Americans against domestic terrorism. Replacing him as Pennsylvania's governor until the term expires in 2003 will be Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Schweiker...
...Dick, "and the pulpit is its prow." That may have been true at one time--but times have changed, moral authority has dispersed, the 1960s and '70s toppled many a preacher from his rostrum, along with other symbols of authority. "That created a trauma in the churches," argues William Schweiker, professor of theological ethics at the University of Chicago. "The first reaction was to encourage a therapeutic emphasis on pastoral care." When it came to preaching, as opposed to social activism and counseling, the mainline churches lost their faith, lost a whole generation. The Bible became just one more sourcebook...
...snow turned politicians into field marshals. New Jersey's Governor Christine Todd Whitman posed in a snowplow. Hoboken, New Jersey's, mayor, Anthony Russo, closed city streets to all but city residents, conjuring the image of a medieval city with the drawbridges up. Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Mark Schweiker confirmed the worst nightmare of the print press by declaring that broadcast journalists qualified as "essential workers" and could therefore drive the streets early in the storm, while newspaper employees could not. Schweiker also announced that Pennsylvania's 2,500-vehicle cleanup was "the largest civilian snow-removal fleet...