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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hired him, Rudolph is one of five children reared by a strict and deeply religious mother. Their father, an airline pilot, died when Rudolph was in his early teens. Teresa Morgan, 28, who attended school with the Rudolph kids, described them as "very well mannered. Everything was 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, sir.'" Rudolph, she recalls, was so bright and attentive in class that he could pass exams "without ever reading a textbook." He harbored "very extreme views" but was quiet and something of a loner. When other kids would go to a local lake to picnic and swim with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Manhunt | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...football players at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to pray in the end zone following touchdowns. Finally, and perhaps most damningly, the institute's director, John Whitehead, displays in his office a portrait of Bob Dylan. That's right, Bob Dylan, author of this lyric (from It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding): "But even the President of the United States/Sometimes must have to stand naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecuted or Paranoid? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Boston, MA--It was the undeniable battle cry which silently came from the mouths of every player and coach present at Legends Restaurant yesterday...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...submit letters, please e-mail them to letters@www.thecrimson.harvard.edu, fax them to (617) 576-9393 or send them to The Crimson, 14 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: To Our Readers | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...which Phyllis expected to be split evenly. But the next day, when Michael, 38, and his wife Jillanne went to claim the purse, there was no mention of Phyllis. That night Michael told his parents that he had bought the winning stub separately from their $40 monthly pool. Sorry, Ma. Phyllis, a sixtyish retiree, then decided to remind her son of what happens when you don't play well with others: she's suing him, claiming breach of an oral contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Ma | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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