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...sobered me up about how precious life can be," Marsha A. Elbourne '96 says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Reflects on College Experience | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...magically recovered his true self--the New Democrat boy Governor who first attracted attention all those years ago, now grown up and gone to gray but still true to his school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter. "Morris has his eye on one thing above all else," a campaign strategist says. "Keep the President steady. Now that he's claimed the center, make sure he sits still, no matter how bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROUGH POLITICS OF VIRTUE | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...urgency of that threat was underscored last week when 60 ichthyologists and wildlife managers gathered in Bozeman, Montana, to share what they had learned about the disease and map out a strategy for fighting it. Unfortunately, there was precious little hard information to share. No one is sure exactly how the disease gets started, how it spreads so easily, why it zeroes in on rainbows or how it can be stopped. "Our data base is almost zero," says Karl Johnson, a virologist who spearheaded the search for the Ebola virus, and is helping to lead this effort. "There are unanswered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A KILLER RUNS THROUGH IT | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Kennedy legacy, and it cost me absolutely nothing. President John Kennedy offered young people compassion for others, hope for a more just world and the belief that we could make things better. I bought this dream, and even now, years later, I think it is the most precious thing a man can give any generation. NAOMI CATCHING Carp, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1996 | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...they were to hold talks, filled with the usual goodwill and cultural misunderstandings, they might actually agree for several precious minutes before someone or other stormed out, to wit and as follows: if gay marriages seem to weaken the institution of marriage as a whole, that's bad. But if they give gays a recognized place in society, that's probably good. You can't very well accuse gays of acting promiscuously in bathhouses if you won't offer them anyplace else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAY IN THE EYES OF GOD | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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