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...comedy turn in Toothless--a fantasy made for ABC's newly revived Wonderful World of Disney--playing a workaholic dentist turned tooth fairy. And at Christmastime, she will co-star in movies with two famous and funny Allens: Woody in Deconstructing Harry and Tim in For Richer or Poorer. The normally reticent Woody Allen, who had never seen Alley until he chanced upon an old Cheers rerun while surfing the TV for a baseball game last year, says he knew immediately he wanted her to play his neurotic psychiatrist ex-wife. "The character called for a kind of earth motherly...
While Karadzic and his cronies have been amassing fortunes, the republic's 900,000 citizens have grown poorer. Unemployment in parts of the Bosnian Serb Republic remains as high as 80%; only 3% of international aid has gone to the Bosnian Serbs, because the Pale hard-liners have refused to carry out Dayton's provisions. Plavsic, who once opposed the treaty, says she realizes that the only way Bosnian Serbs can "reach full economic progress" and survive is to not fight the accord...
...household name. Ten years later she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "She was not a publicity seeker," said Ostling. "But in terms of public image, there is nobody comparable to her." Her tireless efforts have enriched the lives of the poor; today, the world itself is much poorer for her passing...
...average grant in the office is half of the $14,700 tuition, and many receive greater funding, with students from poorer regions often receiving full tuition in addition to a $5,900 stipend for housing and other essentials in Cambridge. Ninety percent of Divinity School students receive some form of aid, Gardner says...
...Tuesday?s compromise: a test program covering 500,000 people. Most Democrats are deeply suspicious of the plan's supposed windfall, arguing that only those who have money can afford to save it. ""Their program attracts only the well-off," said Dick Gephardt, "while the sicker and poorer people are left behind." The cost of treating those needier patients, opponents contend, will quickly drive up Medicare premiums when healthier seniors are allowed to squirrel away unused Medicare funds. To make sure that the test is meaningful, the White House promises to make sure the pilot program enrolls a representative slice...