Word: john
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...HOUSE OF BARRYMORE by Margot Peters (Knopf; $29.95). The rollicking lives and boozy times of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore, the silver siblings of stage and screen whose character roles delighted millions but whose flawed characters inflicted havoc on their own lives and those of their children...
...Margaret Thatcher had a political son, he would be John Major, 47, who has been on the fast track ever since she made him Foreign Secretary in July 1989 and, the following October, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though he has had relatively little Cabinet experience, Major is gunning for the premiership with the apparent blessing of his mentor...
Supplemented by the reporting and efforts of colleagues including Latin America bureau chief John Moody and senior writer Ed Magnuson, Beaty and Shannon have a fascinating, disturbing story to tell...
...program will hardly ease a national crisis, but it is a start. Says John Porter, Detroit's retiring superintendent: "Harvard needs to tell these people there is no answer unless someone comes up with a vaccine. The fundamental issue is that the right conditions in cities to educate children don't exist." But the very existence of the Harvard course proclaims that simply throwing up one's hands will...
...Roman Catholic Church. The order has been expelled at various times by the rulers of France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Japan; the Papacy itself once suppressed the organization for 41 years. In modern times, no episode was as humiliating as the vote of no confidence that Pope John Paul II cast in 1981. After the society's head, Superior General Pedro Arrupe, suffered a stroke, the Pontiff suspended the normal succession and installed his own men as the Jesuits' temporary leaders...