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...this is where my kids are going to grow up." She ran as a Townsend and lost. "That loss was good for her," says former U.S. Senator Joe Tydings, who has been close to the family for decades. "Kathleen is just like her father. She is a learner. She had a lot to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: JUST LIKE HER FATHER? | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...smart lad would stick with art house offerings and steer clear of the Cineplex, especially the whizbang mega-releases. But not a slow learner who adores the very idea of going to the movies and keeps thinking the next one's actually going to be worth the eight bucks. I see ads on buses; I hear the buzz; I read blurbs promising the adventure of a lifetime. They do not tell you that part of the adventure will entail leaving the theater with a bag over your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

Hillary Clinton has good instincts and is, I suspect, a lightning-fast learner. My seance informs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Cry For Me, Oneonta | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

What is the benefit of repeating a grade to a slow learner or a child with a learning disability? You can't successfully use standardized tests for individuals with different learning styles and disabilities. I'd like to see government types in the classroom for a year. I bet they would then have a different perspective. KAREN J. HARRELL Beaufort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

That is now a period piece, but I think it is important to keep it on the record. Graham, a slow but sure learner, moved with the spirit of the age, and in the 1980s he became a preacher of world peace, urging reconciliation with Russia and China, where his wife Ruth, the daughter of missionaries, was born. Angry Fundamentalists turned against him, a move that became an anti-Graham passion when he rejected the program of the Christian right: "I don't think Jesus or the Apostles took sides in the political arenas of their day." The break between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILLY GRAHAM: The Preacher | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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