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...women of the Ivy League to be recognized for their talent, intelligence, creativity, sexuality and tru beauty. It combats media images which use women as marketing devices by encouraging women's bodies to voice their desires and aspirations. Women deserve their own voice. Through this magazine, women can portray themselves as they want to be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playboy Alternate To Be Sold in Fall | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

Najarian's trial, scheduled to begin later this year, is already shaping up to be a compelling courtroom drama. Prosecutors will seek evidence of duplicity from uni-versity administrators and government officials, while the defense is expected to summon an army of patients to portray a man motivated by nothing but the Hippocratic oath. "I'd go to the ends of the earth for him,'' says Charles Fiske of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, whose 11-month-old daughter Jamie in 1982 became the world's youngest recipient of a successful liver transplant performed by Najarian. Scott Jameson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONCE A HERO | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...return to the classics? I'd be delighted to take your word for it. But the modelsyou portray make a mockery of the new styles,with their absurdly outthrust hips and bosoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1995 | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

These distracting stylizations do serve to distinguish the film from others which portray second-generation immigrant children's struggle to balance parental expectation's with their own goals. "Double Happiness" remains most successful when it stay within this genre (familiar from films like "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Wedding Banquet"). When it attempts to step outside of this boundary, the intrigue of Jade's romance loses its force to the distracting strangeness of Shum's style...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: 'Happiness' Doubly Troubling For Viewers | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...called for Congress to have a reform bill on his desk by July 4. He said while there was much common ground between the White House and Congress, the current version of welfare reform is too weak on work and too tough on children. Clinton took special pains to portray himself and the Democrats as the party that protects children. Clinton fumbled a bit when asked to tell why he should be re-elected, saying that he'd done what he said he'd do, and that the country was moving in the right direction. Clinton also dodged a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON "THE PRESIDENT IS RELEVANT": | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

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