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Sometimes I rummage through the attic and look over what's left of Grandma's possessions. There's just her trademark white button-down sweater, a few letters and some tattered pictures. Not much to commemorate the person who guided me through my first 12 years of life, who taught me to play the piano, woke me up for class and cooked me huge lunches of cabbage rolls, bean soup, buttered noodles and applesauce. Grandma gave what little she had so I could have a lot. Thank God for memories...

Author: By Christopher R. Mcfadden, | Title: Remembrances of Grandma | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...operations were two blocks and a few legal documents removed from Republican headquarters, it was just an extension of the party. Barbour was chairman of the forum; G.O.P. officials set its $4 million annual budget and coordinated fund raising. The forum circulated 600,000 questionnaires to identify the hot-button issues that were later assembled into the Contract with America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE G.O.P.'S OWN CHINA CONNECTION | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...career and the reason for raising children. Ironically, I had been making many decision in my life based on feminine stereotypes--I would do the opposite of what the stereotypes stated that I should do. I would pretend I hated children. I would never even sew a button on a skirt. I would wear slippers and my pajamas (or jeans) to class all the time...

Author: By Kristen A. Olsavsky, | Title: Feminism, Russsian Style | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

...1980s. But like Clinton, who wooed back the Reagan Democrats, Blair is leading because he is recapturing those Labour voters who strayed to the Tories as their wallets thickened. It is hardly surprising, then, to hear Blair say that he is not "about to press the rewind button and return to the 1970s" or that he believes "Margaret Thatcher's emphasis on free enterprise was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE BILL? | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

EAGLE, Colorado: DNA tests have confirmed that Captain Craig Button was in his A-10 Thunderbolt when it crashed in the Colorado Rockies. Wreckage of the plane and fragments of body parts were found Friday in the rugged mountains south of I-70, ending a three-week search. National Guardsmen will continue looking for the four 500-pound bombs the plane was carrying. But officials say that deep snow may have erased so many clues that they may never know why Button's plane left formation to fly 800 miles off course before crashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Confirmed to be Button | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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