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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry her, was a drug addict and an alcoholic who left her for another woman weeks after their wedding, gave her herpes, beat her and spat on her and took a lover the day she brought their son home from the hospital. His parents were not exactly heavenly in-laws, blaming her for their son's excesses. Is that why they call themselves the True Parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...process, I have been trampled, kicked, spat on and cursed. I have observed a small, silver blade snake down the arm of a fellow reporter, leaving a red trail. I have been called a murderer--a murderer only because I am white, only because I am trying to rationalize the hatred...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...move that looked like the next jab in anongoing spat, Radcliffe informed FAS it wouldbegin charging rent for use of Byerly Hall, whichcurrently houses the Harvard-Radcliffe Office ofAdmissions and Financial Aid and the offices forthe Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Squabbles, Schemes | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...joyful, rapturous carnality of I've Got You Under My Skin (the '56 version, with the brassy transcendence of Nelson Riddle's arrangement), the sinuous Summer Wind match up with the temperament of a tempestuous loner who traveled with a squadron of pals and protectors, who swung on and spat on the ladies and gents of the press and who declined to forswear certain companions--Vegas oddsmakers and knee breakers, sharply tailored gentlemen in New York and Chicago like Sam Giancana, with no discernible day jobs--in whom the law retained an inveterate interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put Your Dreams Away: FRANK SINATRA, 1915-1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Marlon A. Cicero, one of these demonstrators,described intense hostility leveled against hisgroup, including racial epithets. One member ofthe group was spat upon, he said...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UCLA Protests Carnesale's Reticence on 209 | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

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