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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat met the boy when Holst spent 10 days in Tunisia in June during an unofficial visit. Fond of children, the P.L.O. leader would perch Edvard on his lap during breaks in his talks with the Norwegians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming the Oslo Channel | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Orleans is a fascinating city. It has that faded glory. It has a lot of from the French. And since I was so fond of the French from my earlier times. I've got pretty strong feelings for New Orleans...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Hong Kong's Film King Talks of Censors, Faith | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

...face it; those who label themselves "pro-life" are no more or less fond of human life than the rest of us. They are nothing more than anti-abortion...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Words Too Big for Movements | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

Anti-abortionists are fond of saying that "abortion stops a beating heart", but what they leave out is that abortion ranks relatively low on the global list of things that end lives. In terms of volume, famine, pestilence, war and even heart disease are all far better equipped to truncate heartbeats than some quack with a knife and a vacuum tube...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Words Too Big for Movements | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...winner for the very big, $111 million prize in the Powerball lottery held by 14 states and the District of Columbia. Less than four hours before the drawing, Leslie C. Robins, a 30-year-old English teacher, bought the winning ticket for his fiance at a grocery store in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After learning that they had beaten odds of 55 million to 1, the couple fled to Florida to escape the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest July 4-10 | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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