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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic National Committee, comes close to begging forgiveness in his polite refusal. He says he wishes he could talk, but then congressional investigators and the FBI would also want to chat him up. His wife Jane, interrupted in the midst of her house cleaning, sometimes responds to a doorbell ring at her front door, and always with the same message: "We're not giving any interviews at this time--to anyone." She gently but firmly shuts the door...
DIED. WILLIE PASTRANO, 62, fleet-foot boxer whose nimble moves inspired Muhammad Ali; of cancer; in New Orleans. A chubby child who was the butt of many a schoolyard joke, Pastrano dropped the pounds--and his opponents--in the ring, becoming world light-heavyweight champion in the 1960s...
...this is not a giant, if slightly melted, version of a Hershey's Kiss. It's the venue for figure skating and short-track speed skating, dubbed White Ring because of its shape as seen from...
...Adams Goes to Downing Street The last time Irish Republicans visited the British Prime Minister?s residence, they lobbed mortar shells from down the street. This time, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will ring the doorbell...
...which, incidentally, bears a startling resemblence to the Tony- and Pulitzer-Prize winning Rent--produced by his main competetor for the money. After describing it with much disgust, John declares that "people writhing around...singing political slogans does not constitute opera." Other potentially humorous moments in the text also ring with underscored conservative sentiments. Newt Gingrich is described as a "battling visionary" comparable to Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Also, when pondering his Norwegian heritage, John thinks, "If we aren't the chosen people, then why did God make us so close to the standard...