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...pretty 16-year-old Helms volunteer introduced herself to Reed. Jo Anne Young thought he was about 19 and "really cute." It would be nearly two years before they had their first official date, on the occasion of her high school . graduation. By that time Ralph was taking a recess from politics, obtaining a Ph.D. at Emory University. "I had the feeling all along that I was going to marry him," Jo Anne says, "and even announced that to friends. The idea scared him to death." Two months ago, the Reeds celebrated their sixth anniversary, which fell on a Sunday...
Clinton's plan, which will be formally introduced once Congress returns from its summer recess, has the distinct ring of traditional Republican law-and- order rhetoric, though it includes a basket of provisions designed to assuage liberal Democrats. The new bill calls for spending $3.4 billion for 50,000 new police officers, a "major down payment," Clinton said, on his campaign promise for 100,000 new cops. A centerpiece of the plan is the Brady bill, which would mandate a five-working-day waiting period for gun purchases. Other provisions would send young offenders to military-style boot camps instead...
...April, Hanselman and leading women council members faced off in a heated exchange, marking the first public airing of women's grievances about their treatment on the council. Before spring recess, a group of female members had secretly met to discuss what council member Hillary K. Anger '93 called the "horrible gender dynamics" between men and women on the council...
...always read books," Allen says, earlier referring to herself as "the kid who always read through recess." "But I never paid much attention to the textual aspects. [During the seminar] I started looking at books in an analytic...
...whupped him, he would think harder the next time," Bobby's father David told a social worker. Bobby's sister Martha, two years his junior, helped him through first grade after he flunked it twice. "He just wasn't very bright," she says. "If the teacher said, 'Recess is over; sit down,' I'd have to go over, take his hand and tell him to sit down." She adds, "We were very close." As a teenager, he loved to dance "fast and slow," says Martha. "He'd laugh a lot, but -- I can't explain it -- then he'd stop...