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...played a farmer's wife?) But isn't it better to use your fame for something other than getting a table at Spago Beverly Hills? Mavis has been criticized as misinformed by a tiny but noisy pro-Taliban lobby, whose frequent spokesperson is Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter-in-law of former CIA chief Richard Helms. Its protest outside the party was menacing enough so that Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls) was too shaken to perform. Helms, who lives freely in a New Jersey suburb, is convinced the Taliban is good for Afghanistan and that life is better now that someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Wrapped Up with Nowhere to Go | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...intensely emotional tribute to his father, who Laudor believed saved his life. On the day of the attack, Laudor's mother, perhaps worried by something Costello told her, phoned the Hastings police. She wanted them to drop by the apartment to check on her son and future daughter-in-law. They found Costello's bloodied corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Precarious Genius | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...summers in Kennebunkport. But while still in high school, he went to Mexico and came back in love with a Mexican girl named Columba. He married her, and the Bush Episcopalians, with their love of cold Maine waters, suddenly had a warm Catholic woman for a daughter-in-law. Then Jeb left Houston, the city he grew up in, and put down roots in the Latino culture of Miami, where his family had little sway. He lost his first race for Governor of Florida in 1994 by fewer than 2 percentage points, and the finish was not pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinder, Gentler--And In The Lead | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...Nagano will feature a kickboxing figure skater called Elvis and an American skier called Picabo with her own line of "Air Max Electrify" shoes, but they are nothing new here--nor is the Italian skier who may become the daughter-in-law of Luciano ("United Colors of") Benetton. The poster girl of Nagano will almost certainly be a teenage figure skater not noted for her nose rings. Mike Moran, an assistant executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, recalls that a renegade stance is as old as skiers Billy Kidd and Spider Sabich: "Those guys had every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Some Like It Cool | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...When Dr. Morton told us that our daughter Barbie Ann had glutaric aciduria, John and I thought he had made a mistake," says Lydia Stoltzfoos, daughter-in-law of Jacob and Naomi. But Barbie Ann soon developed a fever, and Morton admitted her to Lancaster General. Stressed by infection, a child with glutaric aciduria does not metabolize certain amino acids normally. The resulting buildup of glutarate attacks the nervous system and damages the basal ganglia, a part of the brain that controls body movement. Once brain injury occurs, a child never recovers. "If it weren't for Dr. Morton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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