Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patricia Hearst, daughter of publishing mogul Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group demands $70 in food for every needy person in California for a ransom. Hearst later declares that she is joining the group of her own will and is indicted in June for her involvement in a San Francisco bank robbery...
...such person was James M. Fallows '70, president of The Harvard Crimson in 1969. He was charged with preserving the paper's objectivity under pressure from all sides...
...sons. She had thought she could maintain her formerly bustling career, which included an Academy Award-nominated role in Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money. But "if you're not available in the U.S., you're just not seen," she says. And, besides, "I've never been a person to make sure I'm seen." She worked intermittently, of course, but became increasingly aware that "the phone hasn't rung and that you're not being offered things, and when you are, it's in soft focus...
...University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later, he won the coveted Richard Tucker Award, given to highly promising young opera singers (Renee Fleming is a laureate), and made a spectacular New York City Opera debut in Handel's Xerxes...
...wants to live to a ripe old age--but not too old, it turns out. A new poll by the AARP finds that 63% of Americans over age 18 are concerned about the effects of age and don't want to live to be 100 or older. The average person among those polled wants to live to 91. Despite their concerns, 60% believe life will be better for seniors in the 21st century, and 57% think life expectancy will then...