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...dramatic contrast, John McCarthy, who was also held for five years, bounced back into freedom looking as if he had just been away for the weekend. Trim and fit, the 34-year-old Briton fielded questions with grace and humor and seemed more than ready to resume his private life and even his public duties as a television reporter. Back in Britain at the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham, McCarthy took time out from being examined to deliver a letter from his captors to the U.N. Secretary-General, tootle around the base in a borrowed car and take...
Perhaps nothing in Donald Kennedy's distinguished career became him like the leaving of it. Last week the Stanford University president took a step that has become all too rare in modern American life: he resigned with grace and dignity under pressure. His departure, effective at the end of the coming academic year, is the outgrowth of the festering scandal in which the university has been accused of overbilling the Federal Government as much as $200 million for research expenses during the 1980s. But there was no smoking gun, no dramatic new revelation, no public ultimatum to prompt his surprise...
...music, with choirs and orchestras doing it the way it ought to be done," remarks Edward Plowman of National & International Religion Report, a newsletter in Springfield, Va. Plowman recently switched from a small denominational church to a bustling independent congregation with 2,000 members. At the 4,000-member Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., the Rev. Lance Quinn says, "We have lots of things that might also be true of smaller churches. We just have them in megadoses...
There was no man more determined than Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn. These actresses were both strong and womanly. They didn't surrender their grace, compassion, resilience -- if we may say so, their femininity -- when they demanded social equality with men. They were looking to live with the other sex, not wipe...
PROFILE At 30, Princess Di is a model of grace and grit...