Word: laura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician. She hardly seems smart enough to be a patient...
Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
WHAT A JOY IT WOULD BE TO VOTE FOR A candidate I actually want in the White House instead of settling for the lesser of two evils . Please, General Powell, run! LAURA FRANCIS Austin, Texas...
...Simpson's defensesuffered a setback when a North Carolina judge ruled that, despite screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny's assertion that Los Angeles Police detective Mark Furman used racial slurs during taped interviews, the defense could not compel her to testify. McKinney's testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense...
...eight years, Laura has earned Harvard's appreciation for her extraordinary dedication to all facets of the University and to the news office," Wrinn said...