Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protesters could also have engaged in academic jousting with Mansfield in various campus media outlets. Perhaps they feared that addressing him seriously would only give his ideas credence that they did not deserve. However, Mansfield will probably continue to be Harvard's most outspoken conservative professor. He has tenure and is not likely to leave anytime soon. This makes any mere one-sided protest particularly ineffective...
...gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways...
...genre in which they work. Susan Lucci may not deserve an Emmy for her dramatic acting, but who can deny her talents as a first-rate comedienne? For years she has tackled Erica Kane with a mockingly forced resoluteness as Erica has gone about collecting ex-husbands through various careers as a supermodel (an occasion for Mahogany-inspired fashion-shoot montages), a cosmetics executive and editor of a news magazine called Tempo...
...getting the better of the U.S. According to the San Jose Mercury News, huge chunks of the $33.6 million the Pentagon has spent in the past four years to track down the 1,609 American military personnel still missing in the country have been diverted into the pockets of various Vietnamese officials, middlemen and hucksters. Among the alleged abuses: entire fleets of U.S.-owned vehicles, designated to drive investigators around, have been rented out to tourists by agents of the Vietnamese government (daily rental fee: $40); village-excavation laborers, slated to receive $30 a day, have often been paid less...
...nutrients known as antioxidants--vitamin A, vitamin E, beta carotene and others--seem nothing short of miraculous. Studies suggest that they may help stave off all sorts of ills, from cancer to heart disease to aging. That has spurred consumers to pay big bucks for antioxidant pills of various descriptions...