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...future. "We understand we have to build ourselves as a movement regardless of the outcome of the elections," says Grapski. Others are not so sure they want to stay tied to one another without the candidate. Charles Goin, a mechanical engineer, actually plans to run for Congress himself in Virginia using the things he learned...
DIED. UTA HAGEN, 84, revered stage actress and acting teacher best known for originating the role of Martha in Edward Albee's 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; in New York City. Born in Germany and raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely...
...hone his memories, Clinton has been sitting for long interviews with Ted Widmer who was a White House speechwriter and is now a history professor in Maryland. The two talk about Clinton's boyhood - his late mother, Virginia Kelley, saved everything - and Clinton then uses the transcript as the basis for his writing which he does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that...
Blakenship hopes more people will come to the park "now that the world knows that Petersburg, Virginia, exists." Civil War buffs, of course, will remember the battle long after Cold Mountain has gone...
Nevertheless, scientists are light-years ahead of where they were in the 1920s and '30s, when estrogen and testosterone were first identified, and they know a great deal more than they did in the 1940s, when Alfred Kinsey, followed by the research team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s, published some of the first scholarly studies of human sexuality. Those studies concluded that sexual response proceeds in distinct stages, beginning with excitement--erection in men, engorgement of vaginal and clitoral tissue in women--proceeding to orgasm and finally to "resolution," in which tissues return to their normal...