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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rush? More than nine months have passed since JonBenet's beaten and strangled corpse was found the day after Christmas; yet tabloid speculation about why Hunter hasn't brought charges in the case of the slain little queen of prepubescent beauty pageants hasn't let up. And being in a "rush" is one charge no one would lodge against District Attorney Hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEADLOCK IN BOULDER | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...which the scientists' work was based. Lister, in particular, was ridiculed or ignored by his fellow surgeons, who refused to acknowledge the marvels he was accomplishing. But he forced himself to overcome his own gentle nature, persisting with the zeal of an evangelist. In the end, honored by Queen Victoria as Baron Lister, he lived to see his name ranked with those of the greatest medical thinkers of all time. As for Virchow, so revered did his theories make him that he came to be admiringly called "the pope of German medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES OF MEDICINE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

That's one way of putting it. Alas, not all these events are as "important" as titillation-hungry readers might hope. Queen Elizabeth was a sexually insatiable newlywed? What previously cloistered 21-year-old girl wouldn't be? The Duchess of York may have used cocaine? Not exactly unheard of among party girls in the 1980s. Kelley's repertorial method appears to involve repeating anything anyone ever said to her, no matter how unsubstantiated ("Now, I have no absolute proof of this love affair with the Queen..." says a source in a not untypical passage). She certainly doesn't break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHAT QUESTION OF TASTE? | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

OPRAH WINFREY Talk queen signs through 2000. She and her producers are happy, and Toni Morrison is ecstatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...simple cowboy, gamboling in the wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place. The ranch is likely to be available for private tours by appointment only. What do you expect for $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAKE LUCKY, HERE WE COME! | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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