Word: bona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zimmerman's widow, Bona B. Zimmerman, said her husband's devotion to the players helped her understand his enthusiasm for Harvard athletics...
...World War I, historians are fairly well-agreed that Chris O'Donnell is not Ernest Hemingway. "In Love and War" has arrived, for better or worse, as an acceptable romance story, set against a beautifully done backdrop of a world war. But notably absent from this picture is any bona fide sense of Hemingway, as O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock with somewhat disturbing success dilute and plain-vanilla the story into submission...
...tone or substance of the talk. That, says psychologist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, is typical behavior among bigots who have no fear that their outrageous conduct will ever be known to the world outside their racist cocoon. "As a bona fide member of the Caucasian club, I can tell you that people talk this way only when they feel very, very sure of their company," says Hacker. "It's clear that in those ranks at Texaco, there were no holds barred...
Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, calls it "a smoking gun" and a true test of Swiss bona fides. "For 50 years," says Steinberg, "they have been telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still can't have it, the implications are monstrous. After all, this is their list, not ours." Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. believe Switzerland's vaults still hold prewar deposits that, with a half-century of interest, could be worth $3 billion to $7 billion today. Even...
...fumbles and foibles, Perot has made a mark on the political landscape. Against steep odds he created a bona fide third party whose presidential candidate in the year 2000 will qualify for taxpayer funding. Lamm and his supporters are already vying for the money, which will amount to several million dollars. More immediately, Perot has helped put two issues squarely at the center of the nation's agenda: campaign-finance reform and the need to overhaul Medicare and Social Security. "If Ross Perot had only known what to do with the remnants of a losing presidential campaign," says Ralph Reed...