Word: sought
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...final decision loomed, Clinton was deluged with advice and sought out more, both by phone and in person. In liberal mythology all the policy arguments were for a veto and the only arguments for signing were crassly political. In fact, however, Clinton's advisers were deeply split on both politics and policy...
...evolution but tolerated study and discussion of it; the statement by John Paul reflects the church's acceptance of evolution. He did not, however, diverge at all from Pius on the question of the origin of man's soul: that comes from God, even if "the human body is sought in living material which existed before...
BORN: Sept. 11, 1932, Mobile EDUCATION: McGill High School, graduated, 1950 FAMILY: Wife, Karen; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Navy, 1952-54 OCCUPATION: Moving-and-storage-company executive POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama House, 1971-79, Senate, 1979-83; sought Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, 1982; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 7641, Mobile...
...Visotzky sought to settle his Genesis crisis in a way that came naturally to him: through Bible study. Some time before, when Visotzky, a professor at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, had first begun to muse about the work's peculiarities, he had initiated in the school's cafeteria a monthly dinner discussion dedicated to making its way through the book a chapter at a time. Instead of the academics and rabbis who were his usual conversation partners, however, he stocked the group with an interfaith roster of fiction writers, hoping they might have insight into human character...
...Bill Moyers is a very different kind of believer from Steve Fintel or, for that matter, Burton Visotzky. For one thing, Moyers' belief has an extremely well-exercised civic aspect. "What I have sought for 25 years to put on television is the conversation of democracy," he says. Although that conversation has been eclectic, with shows ranging from the cia to the black family, Moyers is convinced that "nonsectarian, nonseparationist" religious talk is an essential component. Repeatedly, while promoting the new series, he tells audiences, "We have to decide all over again our identity as a people. Religion belongs...