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...Ford Cabinets -- serving as head of Defense, Justice and Commerce -- Darman followed. Richardson, a problem-solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal," Darman was hardly a natural fit in the conservative Reagan White House...
Almost from the day they were married eleven years ago, Chuck Dribin and his wife Alice Eysenbach began salting away savings toward a home in suburban Chicago. "But something always seemed to happen," recalls Dribin, 38, a high school speech teacher. "Every time we saved $5,000, interest rates jumped and we needed $10,000." Even with a solidly middle-class income (now $40,000 between them), Dribin and Eysenbach, 39, a part-time teacher and actor, wondered whether they would ever be able to unlock the door to home ownership...
...California's frenzied seller's market, some builders of relatively affordable housing are holding lotteries or using waiting lists to determine who can buy. In one such competition, Ron Rogers, 31, and his wife Lucinda narrowly missed out on a $249,900, four-bedroom house in Orange County last summer because other prospective buyers beat him to the sign-up sheet. Rogers, an information officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, now has a crack at one of 19 new homes available this week. But the price of the model he wanted has jumped...
...explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from officials who knew and respected her work. She named her program for Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned South African black leader Nelson Mandela...
Patrick Finucane and his family had just settled around the table for Sunday dinner in their North Belfast home, when three men slipped in through the unlocked front door. One of the intruders, wielding an automatic, opened fire on Finucane, instantly killing the 38-year-old Catholic lawyer. His wife, who was wounded in the ankle, and three children watched the bloody scene in horror as the gang escaped in a commandeered taxi...