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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't matter at all when I came [toAmerica]," she says. "I guess my beliefs werestronger than the peer pressure so it was veryestablished in me that I should abide by the lawsthat I believe...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: BAHA'IS AT HARVARD: | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Kennedy misses a big Contra aid vote. Sources reveal that right-wingers secretly gave the congressman tickets to see a tractor pull and motocross race twinbill at a local arena. "I tried to get some other guys on the committee to go with me, but I guess they never learned how to have a good time." Amway salesman George Bachrach, a former Eighth District candidate, said of "young Joe's" absence: "I would have been there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Well, I don't know. Maybe it's because, first of all, I'm a woman, a widow, and maybe also because I have had some unique experiences. Before, I thought my life was nothing unusual. But I guess that starting with my husband's incarceration, I did experience some unusual situations and events. Also, my husband's assassination received such worldwide attention. If my husband had not been Ninoy Aquino, people would not have bothered with...

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

...nobody to talk to. I really deteriorated. Nobody wore shoes there because it was so dusty. We wore "step- ins." We went to the local movie, but there were fleas and bedbugs galore, so we'd have to bring our raincoats to put on the chairs. (more laughter) I guess I must really have been in love with my husband to have put up with all of this. He used to tease me later that those were the happiest years of my life, and I would say, "Oh, definitely not!" Then it occurred to me that maybe he had thought...

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

...such things sound familiar to you, or has the world advanced so exponentially these hundred years that our common sights are fossils? Futurologists guess about your life, drawing pictures of robot doctors, television sets that one can talk back to, cars that park themselves. There must be more to you than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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