Word: stutters
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Pentecostal preaching is mannered. Jakes' eccentric pauses, coy glances at his audience and the occasional odd, Holy Spirit-inspired stutter that sounds like a skipping CD might normally mystify or annoy the nonanointed. And yet, somehow, they do not. Like Brando's mumbling or Michael Jordan's outstretched tongue, they are pendants to an overwhelming gift...
...Born John F. Welch Jr. to working-class parents in Salem, Mass., Welch grew up with a stutter that Tichy says helped to develop Welch's self-confidence...
...imagine, a working-class kid with a stutter? He was constantly having to prove himself," Tichy says...
...good son, the child who always smiled, who never hurt anyone. "He began reading the Koran by himself," Diallo recalls proudly. And always said his prayers, bowing toward Mecca the prescribed five times a day. Perhaps made shy by a youthful stutter, Amadou nevertheless chose to emulate the adventurous example of his father Saikou, a man who had risen from street vendor in West Africa and dodged coups d'etat and other political turmoil to become a businessman with interests in Guinea, Togo, Liberia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Amadou had seen those troubles and been to those places...