Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drop in Henrie's conversational pool. He can, and is willing to, discuss anything from his favorite movies, The Third Man and Lion in Winter, to cryptocatholicism and his theory of "Lockean Glasses"--he believes John Locke is responsible for the way in which we see the world. Sam J. Rascoff '96 became a "devotee" of Henrie's when he was a freshman. "While a professor has instructed me in a set of discreet material," Rascoff says, "Mark has shaped my taste in the higher sense...
DIED. JAMES L. "BUD" WALTON, 73, billionaire who with his older brother Sam opened the single store in 1962 that eventually grew into the Wal-Mart discount chain, the largest retailer in the country; following surgery for a stomach aneurysm; in Little Rock, Arkansas...
...found their voice. Hour after hour they railed as programs they had erected over decades were demolished overnight. They also found in their wardrobe the accessory of choice: brightly colored Save the Children ties and scarves, which turned up around the weathered necks of such old Democratic bulls as Sam Gibbons and John Dingell. When the debate grew particularly rowdy, the normally soft-spoken Gibbons shouted at the Republicans, "You all sit down and shut up." Later, facing a chorus of boos, Gibbons added, "Boo if you want to. Make asses of yourselves." In an astonishing display of party unity...
Even very sober public officials are deeply concerned. Three weeks ago, Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn sketched a lurid fantasy: how terrorists might wreck the central government of the U.S. On the night of a State of the Union address, when all the top officials are in the Capitol, Nunn said, a handful of fanatics could crash a radio-controlled drone aircraft into the building, "engulfing it with chemical weapons and causing tremendous death and destruction.'' This scenario, said Nunn, "is not far-fetched,'' and the technology is all readily available...
...suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and David Pryor of Arkansas -- may join the retirement list...