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...House-down freshman class of 1994, he was awarded a coveted seat on the Ways and Means committee. He announced his candidacy on the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and got so choked up denouncing the decision that he had to stop speaking. He wants creationism to be taught at school after the kids say a prayer. He's for guns of every variety and promised never, ever to hire a gay person. But his personal life was at odds with his family-values rhetoric. So he got his first wife to sign an affidavit saying...
That accomplishment did not come easy, but it has taught us, if not many, a few lessons about homophobia, discrimination, bigotry and most importantly fear...
...black neighborhood on the poor side of the railroad tracks in Laurel. He runs a pinball and vending-machine company called Sambo Amusement. He loves NASCAR racing and cars in general and drives two classic baby-blue Ford Falcons. He attends the mainstream Hillcrest Baptist Church, where he has taught Sunday school. He gives generously to the poor, including a family who recently asked the church for children's clothing. "What you see on the news and what you see in the church are totally different," says former Hillcrest pastor Max Parker. But Bowers has shown no sign of renouncing...
Sean is 22 now, and having taught himself guitar, piano, drums and bass, he makes his solo debut next week with Into the Sun, an album that should lift him from the purgatory of hereditary celebrity and establish him as a promising if not fully matured songwriter. Produced by his girlfriend and roommate, Yuka Honda of the band Cibo Matto, the album explores a single subject: their love affair. This may sound familiar, yet Into the Sun has a sturdy, radiant optimism all its own. Home and Bathtub, two of the finest songs on the record, are typical: Lennon uses...
...Irish monk,who raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until the day theCatholics return and he falls back into theautomatic regimen of his youth...