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Angry Shiites Vow to Avenge Assassination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

...sodium and fat free. I don't care if the rest of the world enjoys the candy for pure taste. I've tried to make this thing work, and it hasn't. I am afraid of them, I'm sick of them, and from this day forward, I vow to abstain from all romantic exchange stamped on sugar...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Cryptic Love Candies | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

...over New Hampshire voters, of course, with his now (in)famous "no new taxes" pledge. Bush's popular vow proved too much for Sen. Robert Dole, who waffled on the same issue, and soon threw in the towel and headed back to Kansas. Nevertheless, Bush later abandoned his most sacred political pledge, a promise whose appeal had rescued him from the snowdrifts of New Hampshire...

Author: By Harry JAMES Wilson, | Title: Losing His Religion | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

Still, perhaps it is unrealistic to expect active student involvement in the 1992 presidential campaign. For some, the ease with which a spring semester vow can be broken is too tempting to be passed up. But, with nations across the globe waging battle for the right to representative government, it is nothing less than criminal to neglect your ability to help choose the next leader of this country...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: What Are You Waiting For? | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

...Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from her own life. She became a journalist, a remote enough calling that "I thought it was like taking up carpentry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Repossess A Life: NORA EPHRON | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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