Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deep in Clinton's past there are other motives for him to carry on. Fighting to the death is an impulse engraved in his DNA. Before he could walk away from the presidency, he would have to walk away from the example set by his mother Virginia Kelley, and not just in the way she battled to raise him after the death of his father and her remarriage to an alcoholic who made life difficult for them. Twice during her career as a nurse-anesthetist, Kelley was involved in struggles to save her job over episodes in which she felt...
...called Mandela a political prisoner and denounced a government in which the white minority oppressed a black majority. Yet I could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken...
...very much involved in them." Reno watchers believe she will soon launch a formal 90-day inquiry into the Democrats' use of issue-advocacy ads to promote the ticket, and the betting inside Justice is that she will ultimately seek an independent counsel. If that happens, officials say, the mother of all IC probes could result, enveloping Clinton and Gore and even Republican standard-bearer BOB DOLE, whose campaign also benefited from issue ads like the ones in question. "In the real world," says a senior Administration hand, "it comes down to the whole ball of wax. No self-respecting...
Prosecutors refused to rule out the possibility that the boys would be charged if new evidence is uncovered. But police are circulating pictures of two men in their mid-20s around Englewood. The 7-year-old's mother told reporters that one of the men had offered her son to us after the murder. Her son, she said, saw the man "hurt Ryan...
...around the bases, Sosa came out for three emotional curtain calls as fans littered the field while standing and chanting "Sam-mee! Sam-mee!" The delay lasted six minutes. Said the slugger: "I have to say what I did is for the people of Chicago, for America, for my mother, for my wife, my kids and the people I have around me. My team. It was an emotional moment...