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...DAVIS STARES, HIS EYES UNblinking, as Diana Roper talks herself into a frenzy. "I don't know why the tests came back that way. There's no way I'm using now." Already under scrutiny by California authorities for drug possession and leaving her two young children unattended, Roper, 36, knows that her latest drug test, with its traces of methamphetamines, could land her in jail and her two kids in foster care. "They got CHILD ABUSE stamped on my file, and that is not true. I neglected my kids, I'll admit that, but I never abused them." Sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASEWORKERS: MAKING THE TOUGH CALLS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...Lord Dacre (fmr. Hugh Trevor-Roper), responding to a question which asked if this century will go down as the worst one ever, was quoted in the New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

They have apparently found it. The reason NBC embraced The Other Side, says executive producer Ron Ziskin, "is the research indicating that people are interested in it and believe it." A Roper poll taken last year indicates that nearly a quarter of Americans believe in extraterrestrial UFOS and astrology, and nearly a third put stock in faith healing. Most startling, another poll found that as many as 2% of Americans, or nearly 5 million people, claim to have been abducted and taken aboard spacecraft by aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEIRD SCIENCE | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...Those are horrible choices. I guess Mr. Roper because I wouldn't have to sleep with him. He was very asexual and wouldn't have sex with Helen whereas Mr. Furley was just horny...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...They're both kind of old and nasty. I wouldn't want to marry either. Which one had the wife that wore muumuu's? Mr. Roper? That one. I could have fun dressing up in muumuu...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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