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...circled the globe, democracy and capitalism were everywhere in retreat. The propaganda of the day proclaimed that the choice was one of two extremes--fascism or communism. In Germany, economic collapse led to the triumph of the Nazi party and the installation of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor; in Italy, Benito Mussolini assumed dictatorial power with an ideology called Fascism; in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and the communist ideology held sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...title story, Dr. Benito Zamora (a.k.a. "Dr. Do-Good" because of his charity work in his native Mexico) finds himself cripplingly alone and seeks to escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maude: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...title story, Dr. Benito Zamora (a.k.a. "Dr. Do-Good" because of his charity work in his native Mexico) finds himself cripplingly alone and seeks to escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maud: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants." BENITO MUSSOLINI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Fullerton Coach George Horton, electing to savehis aces Benito Flores (12-0, 3.29 ERA) and ErasmoRamirez (10-5, 3.43) for antcipated matchups laterin the week against Tulane and topseed LSU, gotaway with throwing a question mark in Smith, whoat 2-0, 3.75 had not started since March 10 due toan undiagnosed arm injury...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Drops First NCAA Game, 16-1 | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

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