Word: helene
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...Kevin Fedarko. Reported by Helen Gibson/Belfast
...police and British soldiers who have been trying to contain Protestant marchers have made a 180-turn in their strategy to contain violence that has broken out in Northern Ireland since Sunday. Instead of trying to prevent the marches, which celebrate 300-year-old victories over Catholics, TIME's Helen Gibson reports that police have decided it's safer to keep Catholic protesters at bay and let the marches go through. About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum, along the same route...
...born black in the segregated South is essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of 16-year-old Helen Burns and her married next-door neighbor Noah Robinson, Jackson suffered the taunt "Jesse ain't got no daddy" from other children in his native Greenville, South Carolina. After his mother married hardworking Charles Jackson and had a child with him, three-year old Jesse was sent to live with...
...springboard diving at the Olympics in Antwerp. "At the time, I was just an eighth-grader from Brooklyn Heights competing for the Women's Swimming Association of New York," says Mrs. Soule, who now lives in Honolulu, where she still swims for the--brace yourself--Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Swim Club. "When Helen Wainwright, who was also 14, and I made the Olympic team that summer, U.S. officials tried to have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager of our club convinced them that we deserved to go to Antwerp and promised that we would not embarrass...
Such behavior might seem cloyingly disingenuous were Rosie's persona not built in part on a seemingly real reverence for show business. She is insider and Everygal all at once. For although O'Donnell has purchased Helen Hayes' former New York estate and pals around with Madonna, she can still work up a Nebraska housewife's enthusiasm for soap-opera star Susan Lucci, with whom she passionately discussed All My Children plot lines from more than 10 years ago on her premiere show. Unlike David Letterman, O'Donnell doesn't seem to be forcing a good mood; nor does...