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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...true measure ofphilanthropy lies in giving, even when it hurts. And then a widow's mite trumps the rich man's might." OWEN WILLIS Tantallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids off for a soda and know they're safer than if you'd tied them to a tree. Just up Avenue G., Patty Tucker, a 66-year-old widow who moved down off the bluffs and into an incredible loft above the old bank building four years ago, is peering from her window to see if her girlfriends at the Ivy Bake Shoppe can use an extra hand with the lunch crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Fort Madison, Iowa: The Battle of Downtown | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...These were not secrets," said Nancy Maynard, widow of Giles' Nieman classmate Robert Maynard...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Contender For Nieman Post Under Scrutiny | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...epiphany recently as I watched the movie Life Is Beautiful: certain DVDs ought to carry a warning that they're unsuitable for consumption in public. There I was, viewing the Oscar winner on a portable DVD player and sobbing like a freshly minted Mafia widow. The last time I cried so hard at a movie was as a kid when Old Yeller bought it at the end. Only this time, instead of containing my grief by burying my head in a bucket of popcorn in a darkened movie theater, I was bawling on a 7:30 a.m. train to Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearjerkers to Go | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

DIED. EMPRESS DOWAGER NAGAKO, 97, widow of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and mother of reigning Emperor Akihito; at Tokyo's royal palace. She married Hirohito in 1924 and became Empress in 1926. Born a princess, Nagako reportedly had cool relations with daughter-in-law Michiko, the current Empress and the first commoner to marry a Japanese Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 26, 2000 | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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