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Radcliffe officials spent the spring deflectingquestions from the press and worried alumnae afterthe Globe reported that "Radcliffe's days ascollege coming to end" on Easter Sunday. Sheerrinsisted that any "future planning" for Radcliffewas internal and routine, while board members ofthe Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA)demanded answers from Wilson...
...Easter Sunday: The Boston Globe runs a front-page story proclaiming the imminent demise of Radcliffe as an undergraduate college...
...Internet and the supermarket tabloids, waiting for mainstream news outlets to pick them up, give them the luster of legitimacy and dispatch them to the wider world. Last week NBC Nightly News gravely confirmed a Drudge Report item that Clinton and Lewinsky once had sex after he attended Easter services. No big deal. More scabrous stuff than that bounces regularly from cyberland to Jay Leno without stopping for the niceties of confirmation...
When a helicopter carrying Frank Wells, president of the Walt Disney Co., crashed in Nevada on Easter Sunday, 1994, Hollywood whispered that the tragedy had taken Disney's heart with it. It also left the now 56-year-old Michael Eisner, the company's brilliant chief executive, lacking a confidant and a suitable successor. In the past four years, Eisner has entertained a number of pretenders to the throne, notably Michael Ovitz and Jeffrey Katzenberg, only to ultimately discard them--painfully and publicly...
...November 1994, two weeks after his bitter defeat, he attended classes under the Roman Catholic Church's Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. He went once a week for five months to Columba's church, the Epiphany Catholic Church in Miami, and was received into the faith at Easter 1995. "I had just got my butt whupped in the election, and these were real people, and it was so much fun to talk about normal things and to be treated as just a normal, ordinary person." He also invested time in restoring his relationships. "For a two-year period...