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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drew Bledsoe--the true golden boy, everybody's All-American. So he gets in trouble with his Dad (played by Bill Parcells) every so often....his soft-spoken charms eventually dazzle on their own, without the need for a Willie Joe Namath's bumbling brashness...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: New Anglophile | 12/20/1994 | See Source »

Beside a dusty, rural road in the eastern Transvaal, six families of black farmers gathered two weeks ago under a thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Their Own Miracles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

President Clinton, adopting a policy initiative he's spoken of but ignored for most of his term, may announce a middle class tax cut in a televised speech scheduled for 9 pm ET Thursday, White House aides said today. Clinton has been expected to hit the airwaves since last week -- when the White House promised an address to follow up on his fence-mending speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- and Sunday, Clinton said he would propose the tax cut if he could find a way to pay for it. How? TIME White House correspondent James Carney says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON . . . HUD CUTS TO TAX CUTS? | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Gregoire also objected to Hanson's handling of the issue of a house Christmas tree. Hanson has previously spoken against a dining hall Christmas tree because the master feared it would offend people, Gregoire charged...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Council VP Calls for Vote on Winthrop Master | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...matrons, industrial culture, bric-a-brac, the American flag and landscapes, Emily Dickinson's childhood sewing sampler attracts attention. The poet's infant stitches are paired with a work by contemporary text artist Jenny Holzer entitled, "Don't Talk Down to Me..." Holzer's sampler-inspired ultimatum for respect, spoken presumably by a woman, inspires comparisons to the changing role of women in American culture. Dickinson's deceptively archaic sampler, fading with age, reminds us of all that has not changed...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Show Puts Culture in Context | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

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