Word: linda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along this story has been less about crime than punishment. From the nails in Kathleen Willey's tires to the jokes about Linda Tripp's chins to the around-the-clock evisceration of Monica Lewinsky, the story has nourished a culture of cruelty that sacrifices empathy for entertainment. If Clinton has been more mercilessly ridiculed than past Presidents, we can excuse it as partly a response to his own decisions--beginning with his decision to run for office. But the other civilians caught up in the story never ran for anything. They may have done something foolish or wrong...
...from the grandparents who have taken care of her since the accident. "But it don't mean I don't love her," she added, saying she wants to be part of the girl's life. And the Rogers and Chittum families too seemed to think love trumps DNA. Both Linda Rogers--Whitney's mother--and the Chittum family lawyer told TIME that the girls shouldn't be switched again...
...their part, the Rogerses have struggled to manage tragedies that would test Job. Linda and Tommy Rogers, both 47, the bereaved parents of Whitney, are divorced but remain friends. Linda and Brenda Rogers, Tommy's current wife (who says she is in her 30s), have amicably shared care of Rebecca since the car accident. All three were close to Whitney and Kevin, who were living in Linda's home with Rebecca and her 18-month-old "sister" Lindsey while the young couple saved to build a dream house of their own. Chittum, a running back in high school, owned part...
...still refuse to acknowledge that Rebecca isn't genetically one of theirs. Blame it on shell shock: on July 21, only 2 1/2 weeks after the accident, the hospital told them Rebecca wasn't their granddaughter. Perhaps foreshadowing a lawsuit, the Rogerses say hospital officials cruelly ignored their grief. Linda says a pediatrician called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca is Johnson...
...people call it the last frontier," says Woody, 55, a retired truck driver, after a cooldown in his outdoor bathtub. While Woody dunked his derriere, fellow resident Linda Barnett, under a military camouflage net, delivered the nightly CB broadcast of camp doings and items for sale or barter...