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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker has never done a death. He is 25, tall, with solemn, deep blue eyes and a wispy Vandyke. A divinity grad student from Roxie, Miss., he has spent his first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chaplain's Painful Rite of Passage | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Door of St. Peter's Basilica is opened for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1999, it will usher in the Jubilee Year for Roman Catholics around the world. From that night until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2001, the Vatican has prepared a full calendar of solemn observances, including prayer vigils, ecumenical celebrations and several canonizations, over which the Pope will preside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will You Be...December 31, 1999? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Roddy McDowall always had a good face for the movies. A crisp combination of British refinement and wide-eyed innocence, the McDowall mien was lovable enough in the '40s for "Lassie Come Home" to launch Roddy as a child star. Later, it was solemn enough for "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and brightly sinister enough for villainy in 1968's "Five Card Stud." But McDowall, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, knew full well what role he'd finally be remembered for: Dr. Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes." And his face, of course, had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roddy McDowall, 1928-1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...when Williams appears with Cuba Gooding, Jr., who breathes some life into the story. Gooding, whose energy recalls Williams' early comedic work, is a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. The role is a serious one, but Williams is too earnest even considering the solemn subject...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hell is a Dour Robin Williams; Heaven Can't Stand Him Either | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...Office of Independent Counsel is asking the House of Representatives to undertake its most solemn and consequential process short of declaring war; to remove a duly, freely and fairly elected President of the United States because he had--as he has admitted--an improper, illicit relationship outside his marriage. Having such a relationship is wrong... But such acts do not even approach the Constitutional test of impeachment--"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense Of Clinton | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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