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...Rodriguez and Evelyn Rivera moved in May from Bend, Oregon, to the lesbian mecca of Northampton, Massachusetts, so they could stop posing as sisters to placate landlords, employers (both are waitresses) and neighbors while bringing up Rivera's son Mark, 13, by a prior marriage, and her nephew Salvatore, 11. "The sister act is over," says Rodriguez. "You have to be honest with kids to produce honest citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Parents: Under Fire and on the Rise | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...find something suitable, it's made in Taiwan." But as the movie ripens from Green Card situation comedy into mellow drama, it finds human wrinkles in its stock figures. There's no gay baiting or Taipei typecasting. The old folks possess hidden reserves of sagacity; the young folks can bend to meet them before saying a last, wistful goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in The Families | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...attends the elementary school where young Danny Quayle learned to spell, was not the first person outside the museum when it opened last week in Huntington, a tidy, cheerful town of 18,000 located on a bend of the Wabash River. That honor went to the NBC satellite truck that came here before 6 a.m. for an interview with Marj Hiner, the local lady who was the leading force behind the museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: The Quayle Museum Is No Joke | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

Crescent N. Mohammed '97 from South Bend, Ind., says Harvard did not provide her any campus contacts after she was accepted, so she depended on her experiences at pre-frosh weekend to answer her concerns about the campus climate. In fact, when she discovered her hostess was not Black, she stopped a group of Black female students walking down the street and asked them if she could stay with them...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: RECRUITING WARS | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Shambroom skipped Commencement exercises 50 years ago to spend his last civilian days with his girl-friend and then boarded a train to South Bend, Ind., the following day. Like many Harvard and Radcliffe graduates of the class of 1943, Shambroom says his Harvard memories were largely shaped by the impact of World...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: OFF TO WAR | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

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