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PBHA- Best Buddies Volunteer; Latter-day Saint Student Association - President; Dunster House Committee - Social Chair; Gilbert and Sullivan Players...
...country's economic crisis. The Duma on Monday rejected Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister, while Boris Yeltsin has already accepted a lame-duck presidency by agreeing to relinquish many of his executive powers. That leaves the tycoon kingmaker Boris Berezovsky as the most powerful man in Moscow, but the latter-day Rasputin is not on Clinton's itinerary...
...Robert Rudolph as the man they believe responsible for the Jan. 29 bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed an off-duty police officer and severely wounded a nurse, they were confident they would arrest the itinerant carpenter within a matter of days. But like a latter-day, albeit sinister, Robin Hood eluding the Sheriff of Nottingham, Rudolph, 31, a former private in the 101st Airborne skilled at surviving in the wilderness, vanished into the mountainous woods of southwestern North Carolina. And despite being wanted for questioning in the Olympic bombing and two other Atlanta explosions...
Behind the heritage hoopla is the newfound ease with which family connections can be traced, often with the aid of computers. Millions of federal records can be found in Washington's National Archives and Records Administration and its 13 regional branches. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, contains billions of names, with thousands more added each month by 75 research teams microfilming records all over the world. In 2000, visitors to Ellis Island will have computer access to all passenger lists of ships bringing immigrants to New York Harbor...
From Fat Daddy Chico, the bookie who, with his entourage occupies the first row of seats, to the "suits"--the Wall Streeters who rode the 4 train uptown to take in a game--to the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who somehow always manage to comprise a significant chunk of the bleacher attendance, a mass of humanity totally blind to distinctions of class, race and creed bound together around a man who had been chased from the pastime in disgrace for cocaine addiction...