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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gandhi, widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, led Congress to victory in last year?s regional elections, which were fought over such bread-and-butter issues as the country?s onion shortage. ?By projecting Sonia as a Christian and implying that there?s a threat to Hindus from conversions, they?re trying to create an issue with which to beat Congress,? says Rahman. Still, that?s unlikely to impress voters unless there?s an onion in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Christians Under Fire | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...pales beside Jennie Perry, who blackmailed Johnson with charges that he fathered an illegitimate son. And Johnson's critics claimed he was conspiring to help the defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, elected Governor before he became President and tormented by Republican foes--would have a lot to talk about. The drive to impeach Johnson, the only President to be impeached and tried in the Senate, was really about the politics of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans who controlled Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impeachment: An Impeachment Long Ago: Andrew Johnson's Saga | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia Williams), a young widow who teaches first grade. At this point things fall apart. And to some degree so does the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Class Clowns | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

SONNY BONO Widow tells tales on him after he's gone. She's a politician. She's learned to leak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Carson began working on the project in 1985,upon the request of King's widow, Corretta ScottKing...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: King Historian Introduces His New 'Autobiography' | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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