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...just that . . . well, I marveled at my mother-in-law ((Dona Aurora Aquino)) and how she could campaign. She was perfect at it; she could give speeches. And I thought, Thank God she can do this for me! She was the type who could kiss babies. As the wife of the mayor in Concepcion, I was expected to go to every wake. Initially, the corpses would be in a bed with just a sheet or curtain over them. My mother-in-law could handle all this, but it was all I could do to look at them. Many nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year: Cory Aquino, A Christmas Conversation | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Actress Sonia Braga, 34, seems to have a penchant for multiples on the screen. In her most famous role, the Brazilian Loren played Dona Flor, she of the two husbands. And now Braga has a three-part undertaking. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, two prisoners, played by Raul Julia and William Hurt, pass time in jail as Hurt's character recounts the plots of early Hollywood movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 17, 1984 | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Drye was suing for more than $50,000 compensation for back pay and legal fees, in addition to punitive damages. Complications arose when UPenn refused to release employee records that Drye's lawyer. Dona Kahn, wanted...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: UPenn, Drye Resolve Discrimination Case | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

...called on its lay financiers, like Michele Sindona, who urged the Pope's bank to invest in many of his deals. When Sindona's empire collapsed in 1974 with the failure of New York's Sin National Bank, the Vatican lost an estimated $70 million. Sin dona is serving a 25-year prison sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and Mammon | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...bunnies are now "free forever from the sins of Dr. Dona Kern," the spokesman said. "The rabbits are gone...very far away...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Rescue Rabbits | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

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