Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year?s election. Observers believe the sudden arrest of 13 Iranian Jews last month on charges of spying for Israel was a conservative attempt to paint Khatami into a difficult corner, while the ban on the liberal newspaper Salam, which sparked off the unprecedented six-day protest movement, was part of the mullahs? plan to stack the electoral deck in their own favor...
...life, John F. Kennedy Jr. was a ready celebrity; if he never sought out the adoring crowds, he was at ease in them when they came. A major part of his contribution to the Kennedy legacy was that he wore it so generously, and so well. In death, he will be more like his sister. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, so close with John their whole lives and certainly closer to him than anyone still living, has been the dominant voice behind this Kennedy farewell. John Jr. will go without crowds, without cameras, without much input from a nation that...
...sleek and powerful cruise line industry has run into very choppy American legal waters. On Wednesday, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world?s second largest cruise company, had agreed to pay a record $18 million in fines as part of a guilty plea to 21 felony counts of dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals from its ships. The company "polluted the very environment on which its business relies," said Reno. "They dumped everywhere: at sea, in port, at sensitive environmental areas." The fines are the stiffest ever to be levied on a cruise line...
...three miles deep since 1961, was brought to the surface by an underwater salvage team around 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday. "Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon and bring him back," says Kluger. "But he didn?t plan for anything else after that." Maybe that?s part of the reason we're so upset about the death of his son, who represented a glimmer of hope for the future...
Ornish puts his heart patients on a strict vegetarian diet allowing for--at most--a third of the fat of the A.H.A. diet. (Patients also take part in an exercise and stretching regimen, plus meditation and group therapy to reduce stress.) Result: according to a five-year study published in 1998, patients on the Ornish regimen had lower cholesterol levels and fewer angina episodes, and in many cases they were able to avoid bypass surgery and angioplasty...