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DIED. BERTHA HOLT, 96, children's advocate whose missionary-like crusade to adopt war orphans resulted in a 1955 law allowing Americans to adopt more children internationally; in Creswell, Ore. Devout Baptists, Holt and her husband adopted eight Korean children left abandoned by U.S. soldiers and founded a respected international adoption agency...
...year-old bombshell midway through her first national tour of the U.S., promoting her hit single, Another Dumb Blonde. The girl-empowerment anthem contains such coming-of-age epiphanies as "Lately I've just come to find/That you're not really interested/In my heart or mind." A devout Christian and onetime Tommy Hilfiger model, Hoku--whose name, conveniently, means "star" in Hawaiian--is uncomfortable with the pop star's prescribed role as sex kitten and refuses to flaunt her body to sell more albums. After her concerts, she says, "girls in tears have come up to me and said, 'Thank...
...celebrity-sated audience, there's also a refreshing populism in the casting; here are people that you rarely see on TV: mixed-race characters; the devout; chubby gay men over 30. In fact, The Real World's diversity may now be cliche--gay guy, meet the Asian girl; white beatnik, meet the alcoholic. (This year's gay guy, before coming out to his housemates, coyly announced he had "a secret," and regular viewers who had witnessed previous coming outs knew in a split second what it would be. If you use that line by the show's ninth season...
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Clark is the eldest son of a devout Mormon family, and is a former Eagle Scout...
...course, the gospel according to fm wouldn’t be complete without someone getting seriously pissed off. even as harvard’s devout ecstasy users unleashed torrents of rage, we had other bridges to burn. in a classic example of the juxtaposition of high and low culture, fm dirties its hands in the old boys’ business, ensuring our place on the world’s shit list for one more week. thank...