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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dentist's office part time--that is a fair amount of money. "Speaking from a selfish standpoint," he says, "I won't send a couple of thousand dollars back." He laughs as he picks up his youngest, 14-month old Taylor, and bounces him on his knee to quiet him. "I wish [the credit] were $1,000 per child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAX CUTS: WHO WILL GET THE BREAKS? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...crushing break with his father came when he was a sophomore at Emory. Gingrich announced to his stunned family that he wanted to get married--to his high school math teacher, Jacqueline Battley. The unconventional relationship had stayed very quiet, but Newt's sisters knew this was no ordinary schoolboy crush. "Jackie was someone he could talk with, who could see his visions," says Newt's sister Roberta. But Bob was adamantly opposed to a wedding. Bob had never become a doctor because he had to work long hours as a bartender to support his family while going to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...parents divorced when he was 10; he and one sister stayed with his father, another sister stayed with his mother. McVeigh's high school teachers and classmates remember him as intelligent (his IQ is a well-above-average 125), an excellent student in subjects that interested him and a quiet but friendly companion. His final grade-point ranking was not quite high enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the 1991 Gulf War as a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner and immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...letter continued: "For example, one of our members, a black male undergraduate, has been asked to show his ID card by fellow fearful students every time he has walked alone inside a freshman dorm this year. This is the quiet side of racism that the inexcusably ambiguously Police poster fosters...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Group Takes Credit for Fake Poster | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

Unfortunately, this successfully defamiliarized production of "Othello" is not a good one. Levine sacrifices both vicarious appeal and smoothness when he casts lago as a nice, boring guy, Othello as a quiet, badly-dressed general, and several minor characters as masked, "mechanical" bores. A sense of alienation is easy to achieve in theater. What takes more work is putting together a meaningful and entertaining play. Levine's "Othello" distances viewers "not wisely but too well" so well that the audience shrinks somewhat after each intermission...

Author: By Hsuan L. Hsu, | Title: Othello' Distances Viewers 'Too Well' | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

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