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Roberts, a fourth-generation descendant ofOregon Trail pioneers, said leaving her home statewas a difficult decision.
This was drama as rant, an explosion of bad manners, a declaration of war against an empire in twilight. The acid tone, at once comic and desperate, sustained Osborne throughout a volatile career as playwright, film writer (Tom Jones) and memoirist (A Better Class of Person). More important, it stoked...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of...
Not likely. Whatever his faults, Hosokawa, not a particularly corrupt figure in Japanese public life, was responsible for passage of a landmark political- reform bill. Most of the senior politicians now jockeying for his job came of age in the same money-swamped system, and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party...
No, no, no. Several of the aforementioned commentators designate "RB" a direct descendant of the much-beloved classic "St. Elmo's Fire," except they find it much more enjoyable and sophisticated. They're wrong on two counts. "Reality Bites" is not like "St. Elmo's Fire," but rather more along...