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Stewart edged Jobe G. Danganan '99, her nearest rival and the progressive heir to the council's existing leadership, by a silver-thin margin...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: People in the News 1997-1998 | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, weds Lt. Philip Mountbatten in an elaborate ceremony. Students gather around radios at dawn to listen to a broadcast of the wedding...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Timeline 1947-1948 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigations go on and on [NATION, May 11]. There are few things more frightening than a self-righteous, self-important "guardian" of public morals and minds like Starr, a tin-pot Torquemada and spiritual heir to Himmler. JENNIFER JOHNSTON SMITH Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 1, 1998 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS (June 12). Here's Harrison Ford, 55, in an ornery romance with Anne Heche, 28. But stuff blows up, and Ford has the chance to solidify his claim as heir to Clint's manly scowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aieee! It's Summer!! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...studded with demands. "We have come to our nation's capital to cash a check," King admonished. "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Luther King | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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