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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyers, Sarah Oldham, notes that Lorna packed up and sold five houses and took primary responsibility for the two kids. She created what William H. Whyte Jr., author of The Organization Man, once called an island of tranquillity that would "liberate her husband's total energies for the job." Eight days after the Wendts' first child was born, according to Oldham, "Lorna got a call from Mr. Wendt's secretary saying, 'Your husband has decided to have a dinner party tonight. There will be 12 people arriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVORCE, CORPORATE-STYLE | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

That's why doctors and nurses are starting to prescribe reading to babies along with regular checkups and vaccinations. Recently I went to Georgetown University's Medical Center with Maurice Sendak, the renowned children's author and illustrator. His book Where the Wild Things Are was one of Chelsea's--and Bill's--favorites. Mr. Sendak read the story to children, and I announced, along with representatives of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, a national campaign to put books in the hands of parents who bring their young children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMFORT AND JOY | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...reader ventures through territory like this, the question arises, "Yes, it's clever, but what's the point?" With Leithauser's novel, that question is precisely not the point. The author, who has spent time in Iceland and the Faroes, invented Freeland not to write a political parable but because the more he thought of this imagined place, the more it fascinated him. Its texture is rich and believable. Early in his career the President bankrupted the small nation to build an old folks' home at the base of a big mountain. Now, "mountain-viewing" is local slang for dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HANNIBAL'S LAST HURRAH | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...mean-spirited and cruel is in flagrant violation of the spirit and the letter of the law, and that Jew is not an Orthodox Jew by any means of classification. After all, how could one be a truly Orthodox Jew, one who loves the Torah and its Divine Author and His creations, and disregard the words of our teacher Maimonides: "There is no joy which is greater or more wondrous than gladdening the hearts of the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the stranger, for the one who gladdens the hearts of these unfortunate people is compared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fundamentalists Are Not Terrorists | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

Goldhagen is the author of last year's award-winning bestseller "Hitler's Willing Executioners," which argues that ordinary Germans participated extensively in the Nazi genocide...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: Potential Holocaust Professors Weighed | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

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