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...week he had to apologize to Dole for leaking the details of the nominee's much awaited foreign-policy speech on the eve of its Thursday delivery, undercutting the public-relations drama of Dole's announcement that he supported extension of most-favored-nation trading status for China. "Loose cannon," growled a Dole official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MATING GAME | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways," he once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 18, 1996 | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...fund does work for some, like Sarita N. Cannon '98. "I probably wouldn't be able to take lessons without it," the singer says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Criticize Theory Emphasis | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...three student members are Courtney E. Cannon '97 of Kirkland House, Mary E. Ford '96-'97 of Dunster House and Robert B. Wolinsky '97 of Cabot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Advising Committee Named | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

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