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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple decency. It is the essence of Capra's best-loved heroes. Jefferson Smith must contend with the schemes of Senator Paine, his onetime hero who plays a scene decked out in white tie and tails. In Meet John Doe, Gary Cooper battles the fascistic schemes of the super-rich Edward Arnold, who is seen in an elegant dining room complete with tuxedo and cigar. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Cooper must defend himself against a courtroom full of slickly dressed, high-priced, big-city lawyers. In It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey learns that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...Originally, we were on March 12, Super Tuesday, and we thought Massachusetts would get lost," said Jack McCarthy, chief of staff to Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin. "It made sense for us to regionalize. A lot of issues were the same, and we could have the candidates talk about what we were interested...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Buchanan Shocks New England With N.H. Victory | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Dartmouth, however, literally ran away with the Heps title. The Big Green swept the top three spots as well as the No. 6 position, giving Dartmouth a super-low total of 23 points...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Goetze, Carswell Lead Harriers | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...been a super 13 years," Nugent said. "Harvard is a great place to work, no matter what everyone says. The complainers are the ones who've never worked out in the real world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Leverett House Superintendents Plan Retirement | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...used. The jaunty, confident head of the family most often, it turns out, lived off his wife's salary as a legal secretary (when he managed occasionally to earn a bit of money, he did so by editing a not very successful soft-porn magazine called Hot Dog). The super-American, his daughter learns, was born not in Ohio, as he claimed, but in Vilna, Lithuania, five years earlier than his supposed birth date. The Jewish convert to right-wing Catholicism, Mary finds, was never accepted as anything but a Jew by his wife's Irish Catholic family. Most pathetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DAD REVISITED | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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