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Associates predict Edelman, in today's speech, will broach her preferred subjects: the plight of America's abused and poverty-stricken children and the necessity for Americans to dedicate themselves to service if there is to be any hope for societal reform...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: 'America's Mom' Battles to Promote Welfare of Children | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...Roth the author's intentions and "blame" him for holding any particular view. Would some chastise the sympathetic portayal of a Palestinian Nationalist? Or rather, would some be upset by a sympathic portrait of a Mossad (the Israeli Secret Police) officer named (or not named) Smilesburger, who regrets the plight of Palestinians but defends Israel nonetheless...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Will the Real Roth Stand Up? | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

DeLong says it was an unpleasant stay at a Boston homeless shelter that instigated her political awareness of the plight of the homeless...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: A Long And Bumpy Road | 5/26/1993 | See Source »

During the discussion, Irlando asked Brown about the plight of farm workers in California. Brown said Republicans and rural Democrats teaming up against the less fortunate were to blame...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Brown Speech Attacks Businesses, Government, Media as 'Corrupt' | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

...puzzle is, How did people miss the big transition? It's not that Eastwood has been toiling in obscurity, making little jewels about the plight of the sea otter in the Gulf of Alaska. This is a man who has been the biggest draw in movie theaters for more than 20 years. How big? The 21 movies he has made for Warner Bros. since 1971 have had box-office sales of $1.2 billion worldwide. (Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger may one day be contenders.) The videotape sales of his movies have brought in an additional $139 million, and the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make My Career: CLINT EASTWOOD | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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