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...Alice Metzinger, the teacher and restaurant consultant who lived an exemplary life in Oregon. To her mother she was Kathy, a daughter she had last seen 23 years ago on a weekend visit from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large Power brood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Fugitive | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...diversity in high school among Santa Fe's Hispanics and Native Americans and was drawn in college toward the possibilities of black sovereignty in Africa. "She wanted to make a difference," says classmate Katie Bolich. "She was so committed." Biehl wrote her honors thesis at Stanford University on Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who helped bring independence to Namibia. In 1989 she traveled there and developed a close friendship with Namibian President Sam Nujoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bright Life, Dark Death | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...made it almost impossible for people to peg her with a permanent caricature. First came the Republican version of a sharp-elbowed, pointy-headed wife determined to play out her ambition through her husband's campaign for the White House; then came Hillary as a cross between Betty Crocker and Joan of Arc, a cathartic role model for women who need to believe that someone can effortlessly combine marriage, children and career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of What? | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

Polinsky, who is Crocker professor of law and economics at Stanford University, is a visiting professor at the Law School. His grant money will fund "a study of the role of federal and state governments in sanctioning individual and corporate wrongdoers," he said...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Five Researchers Win Guggenheim | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

Dicke portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Entertaining Shop of Horrors | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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