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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh and blood. I can't believe he could be a cold-blooded killer." She added a sentiment many would surely echo, about their own flesh and blood: "I hope he's not the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH AT EVERY STOP | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...Just's beguiling personalities has always been the nation's capital. The mystique lives on in Echo House (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25), a novel that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CAPITAL CONNECTIONS | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MORAL OF THE STORY | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...quite escape the feeling that no one involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version of a French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long as they?re borrowing from offshore sources, why not this old, curiously appropriate title: Memoirs of Underdevelopment." BOOKS . . . ECHO HOUSE: Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...head to be led up the world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick is to get back down alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DEATH IN THE CLOUDS | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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