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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news (for me, anyway) is that I'm covered. Moreover, new laws provide volunteers with the most comprehensive safety net yet. Last year, in the spirit of Colin Powell's summit on volunteerism, Congress passed the Volunteer Protection Act providing immunity for Good Samaritans so long as their conduct is not criminal or does not constitute "gross negligence." So, if someone trips and burns on your grill at the church barbecue, the law protects you. Just don't stick his hand in the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pitch In, Get Sued | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Man in Ur | 6/21/1998 | See Source »

...summer the weather is a little tamer, and you can hike up to the summit or take a cog railway...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New England Offers Splendors | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...Folks: You can rent any movie on any of these lists and not possibly go wrong; these are all great films. The main point of this little summit was mainly so that you would be able to read the lists and form elaborate and intense preconceptions about each one of us. So dig in. Just one favor: Go easy on the hate mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Potatoes | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...Joey Bishop gathered in Las Vegas to film the casino-robbery caper Ocean's Eleven. Every night for three weeks, after the day's shooting was over, they all played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino in which Sinatra held an interest. They called their act the Summit, a convergence of star power. Crooning, one-upping each other, rolling out booze jokes with their onstage liquor cart, they established their bad-boys-in-black-tie schtick. Sinatra to Martin: "Tell me something, do you fall in the street a lot?" Martin: "It's the only time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ring-A-Ding Ding | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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