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DIED. JOAN BRADEN, 77, former State Department official and frequent hostess to Washington's political heavyweights for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. Braden inspired the character of the matriarch in the '70s ABC series Eight Is Enough, a show based on husband Tom Braden's book about their family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...DeMoss undertakings, the Power for Living campaign turns out to be a simple call to Christ. But a significant minority of the foundation's projects are harder edged, targeting abortion and gay rights and promoting a vision of a Christian America some find overzealous. The DeMoss family, led by matriarch Nancy, 61, is politically and theologically conservative. Its charity was "an early and significant supporter of the religious right," says William Martin, author of With God on Our Side, a history of the movement. As the DeMoss Foundation demonstrates its willingness to pour tens of millions into reaching a mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are Those Guys? | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...responses were sung in breathless hysteria. It was a lighthearted moment in a year that has been heavy with pain and injustice. As the boy dashed out of the living room, the adults quickly turned sober again. Rosetta Crawford, the boy's grandmother and family matriarch, took a drag on her cigarette and said softly, "We were a quiet family. But somehow we became the most hated people in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Minus Joy | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Harvard students can explain anything from the Kantian moral imperative to the Gram-Schmidt reduction of linear algebra with the fluency of a matriarch's Yiddish and the passion reserved for TV evangelists. But ask them what they want to do after graduation and responses stall and stutter...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Mother Baldwin is the matriarch of a pretty famous group of kids. Do you think you Baldwin brothers have a deserved reputation for being bad boys...

Author: By Joseph F. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hanging Out (and Talking) 'Tough' with Stephen Baldwin | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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