Word: newports
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, it finally dawned even on the White House that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to do much more -- and quickly. From Newport Beach, Calif., en route to Los Angeles to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the USO, Bush ordered American planes to air-drop food, blankets, clothing and other relief supplies to refugees suffering in the border mountains. He promised up to $10 million in emergency aid to the refugees. And he called for a major international effort to keep the Kurds from starving and dying while someone figures out what to do with them...
...case currently before the Supreme Court, Sharon Russell, a 335-lb. nursing student at Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., was thrown out of school because she failed to lose 2 lbs. a week. Now a nurse in Florida, Russell, 26, sued Salve Regina and won a $44,000 jury verdict. But the school appealed, arguing that her obesity kept Russell, an A student, from completing her clinical requirements. Says Salve Regina's lawyer Steven Snow: "There are certain physical requirements you have to fulfill to be a nurse. I don't know of any blind people who are nurses...
...American Music of Irving Berlin, Dwight Thomas at the Paramount Wurlitzer Organ (Newport Classic). Even on this unlikely instrument, Berlin's melodic invention -- from the infectious Puttin' on the Ritz to the tender Always -- is nonpareil. The sleeper of the year...
...single mother of two daughters, Dixon will be the fourth Black woman to serve as mayor of a city with a population more than 100,000, said Jessie Rattley, former mayor of Newport News, Va., who introduced Dixon...
...rich "are different from you and me," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes," Ernest Hemingway appended, "they have more money." But Claus and Sunny von Bulow, at least as represented in this marvelously sad and funny docucomedy, really were different. She, the depressive Newport heiress, with a frail hauteur in her demeanor and a well-stocked pharmacy in her purse. He, Danish-born and smartly foppish, living off her wealth and at her whim. Not Eurotrash exactly -- aristotrash. When in 1981 Claus was accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which...