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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Ronald Reagan became President, Currie was so well entrenched that she and a handful of career bureaucrats all but controlled an agency that he had vowed to padlock. When he appointed a conservative Dallas lawyer named Thomas Pauken to head ACTION and "de-radicalize" the place, Pauken found he had to topple Currie first. "As long as she was sitting outside my office, I wasn't running the agency," he declares. So he demoted her. "Betty was surprised," he recalls. "She thought she had the place wired...
Harvard delivered the coup de grace with a six-run rally in the bottom of the fifth, sandwiching two-run singles from junior catcher Jason Keck and senior designated hitter Brett Vankoski around a mishandled double play ball by Bonehill...
...recently noticed these slogans on posters for the Fantastick Theatre Company's show "It Takes a Woman," which opens this weekend. The show is supposed to be about female empowerment and celebration. However, the posters consisted of other such enlightened slogans as "Gentlemen, commence drooling," and the coup de grace, "Women's line was never this convincing," implying that it is convincing because the women look...
...ruin their nation by harassing President Clinton? People are trying to dig up anything they can to destroy him. But he is only human, capable of committing mistakes. Don't condemn him. Instead, try to see the good he has done. Americans are lucky to have him. STELLA VILAR DE ASIS Muscat, Oman...
...Monte Carlo, topless celebrities in St.-Tropez or glamorous hotels like the Negresco in Nice. But I like to get away from all that and head for a tranquil monastery on an island in the Mediterranean Sea a mile off the coast of Cannes. The monks at the Abbaye de Lerins on Ile St.-Honorat have, I admit, always been my kind of guys. Early to bed and early to rise, they lead simple, structured and disciplined lives. Silent and humble, they meditate and chant and are ecology-minded. While guests are encouraged to clean up after themselves and help...