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Around Philadelphia, folks are pretty impressed with this intellectual dynamo. Zdrok was featured on the cover of the August issue of Philadelphia magazine, holding, in the words of writer Duane Swierczynski, "another hot young thing"--a baby lion cub. She appeared at a suburban Barnes and Noble to meet the masses and was almost mauled by a group of angry Bryn Mawr women. They were, by the end, suitably impressed by her wit and sharp mind, according to Nancy Zimbelli, director of promotions for the store. "She's a smart cookie," Zimbelli raved...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Feminist Sans Clothes | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...average community suburban hospitals are doing much better than the teaching hospitals, even though the teaching hospitals have the Medicare subsidy," says Corlette...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Harvard's Teaching Hospitals Rush To Adapt to a Competitive Environment | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...female executive is so pleased with her mnemonic techniques for remembering names ("bimbo -- Fran!") that she can't understand why her underlings hate her. A group of tight-faced suburban matrons discuss their plastic surgery. ("Was it painful?" "No, darling, it was Silverman.") A women's book club meets every week to discuss the same novel, The Bridges of Madison County. The group's leader has restyled her hair and wardrobe to look like Francesca, the farm wife who has a torrid affair in the book with a magazine photographer. The others are just as far gone. "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: She Who Laughs Last ... | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Produced by former SNL writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, She TV ventures into corporate boardrooms, suburban kaffeeklatsches and neighborhood bars with the savvy eye of comics who actually have lives outside the TV studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: She Who Laughs Last ... | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...same time, he seemed to be stepping up his drug habit, including smoking the white pipe. A week after the Bop executions, he was seen staggering around while on assignment at a Mandela rally in Johannesburg. Later he crashed his car into a suburban house and was thrown in jail for 10 hours on suspicion of drunken driving. His superior at Reuter was furious at having to go to the police station to recover Carter's film of the Mandela event. Carter's girlfriend, Kathy Davidson, a schoolteacher, was even more upset. Drugs had become a growing issue in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Life and Death of Kevin Carter | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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