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Monitor
March 2, 2018
Billy Graham, who died last week at age 99, conducted his first city-wide crusade in 1947 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He held more than 400 crusades in 185 countries, speaking in person to 215 million people! Ten times as many — 2.2 billion people — heard him on radio or TV. No one in history broughtÃâà...
Mother Jones
August 29, 2017
HHS paid another syndicated columnist, Michael McManus, to promote the administration's policies and gave grant money to his organization, Marriage Savers, on whose board Horn had previously sat. McManus quoted Horn in several of his stories without disclosing that he was getting paid by HHS.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
April 9, 2017
The use of cell phones while driving plays a role in 1.3 million crashes each year, causing 500,000 injuries and 6,000 deaths according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Text messaging is the most dangerous practice, making a crash 23 times more likely. Recently the driver of a large pickup truckÃâà...
In These Times
March 16, 2017
... columnist Maggie Gallagher was being paid $21,500 by Health and Human Services to promote a Bush initiative encouraging marriage, which she did in outlets like National Review; conservative commentator Michael McManus received $10,000 to do the same; and a freelance writer got at least $7,500Ãâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 10, 2017
... columnist Maggie Gallagher was being paid $21,500 by Health and Human Services to promote a Bush initiative encouraging marriage, which she did in outlets like National Review; conservative commentator Michael McManus received $10,000 to do the same; and a freelance writer got at least $7,500Ãâà...
GazetteNET
June 6, 2016
EASTHAMPTON – Since starting work May 23 as city engineer, Michael McManus already dove into a vital water asset management project. McManus, of Holyoke, succeeded James Gracia as city engineer. Gracia retired in January after 17 years on the job. McManus has 16 years experience and mostÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 3, 2015
In his book Tory Pride and Prejudice, about homosexuality and the Conservative Party, Michael McManus wrote: “The author of this book worked for Sir Edward ... Another biographer, Philip Ziegler, considered Sir Edward “sexless,” but Matthew Parris, the commentator and former MP, claims he detected aÃâà...
New York Times
February 21, 2015
How should a person inhabit a perfectly elegant, black-and-white cartoon panel? That's the issue faced by the cast of “All Our Happy Days Are Stupid,” the play in pursuit of a style by Sheila Heti, best known for the identity-pursuing novel “How Should a Person Be?” It is an issue that's never resolved.
New York Times
February 5, 2015
TORONTO — On a cold evening in late January, a dozen or so actors were standing in a circle in a cramped rehearsal room here, harmonizing their way through an earnest indie pop song that warned against becoming “the thing you hated.” Soon the group began sliding cartoony cutouts of the ParisÃâà...
New York Times
January 30, 2005
28 - The Bush administration acknowledged on Friday that it had paid a third conservative commentator, and at least two departments said they were ... The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed having hired Michael McManus, who writes a weekly syndicated column and is director of aÃâà...
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