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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reserved that she often uses only facial expressions to reveal her opinions. She keeps her private life so private that some of her co-workers were not really aware of her divorce, her courtship with the man who became her second husband, or the deaths last year of her brother and her sister. She is regarded by nearly everyone as apolitical and nonpartisan, but over 10 years and three elections she became a minor franchise player on Democratic presidential campaigns. "For a woman who's been around politics as long as she has, it does not appear that aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Currie Riddle | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...father and older brother described their feelings when they received the phone call from the police, their two hour drive to the hospital in the middle of the night, and their feelings of guilt and helplessness for not having been there to protect us. We speculated what would have happened had my coach not killed himself or had his plan succeeded. At the same time that we were flooded with intense sadness and the joy of surviving, we were fending off New York television and news reporters who were harassing...

Author: By Jennifer M. Rhodes, | Title: More Than Survival | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...time when we were most vulnerable, I, my mom, my dad and my brother expressed our neediness by opening up to one another. We were already comfortable talking about painful things, but it was the first time that our closeness as a family was tested. The ability to accept each others' sense of helplessness protected me from with-drawing, becoming overwhelmed by anger or fear, or from closing people...

Author: By Jennifer M. Rhodes, | Title: More Than Survival | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...hour later, when I told Todd about Dice (the naked brother) he was surprised. Todd said that when Dice and his girlfriend get drunk they often walk around scantily clothed, but never fully naked. I must be mistaken...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: GOING GREEK | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...that all their fraternities are godsends. The evening before the game, a few of us were touring the night scene, and while waiting on line for a fraternity party we saw a student thrown down a large flight of stairs onto the concrete. A brother of the house hosting the party ran to the bloody and injured student, seemingly to offer help, but instead proceeded to beat and kick the student until his friends finally intervened...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: GOING GREEK | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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