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On a typical Monday morning, the neatly dressed mothers gather on living- room sofas for a counseling session led by Thomas. Longtime residents express unfettered affection for their tall, slim mentor, dressed today in a red jumpsuit, brown tweed jacket, black high heels and silver bracelets. "She doesn't judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela House: A Hand and a Home For Pregnant Addicts | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Buried within the Bush budget is an odd change in policy: the President seems committed to reversing tax reform, the major legislative triumph of Reagan's second term. A reduction in capital-gains levies would erode the reform principle that earned and unearned income should be taxed equally. Bush also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaganomics With A Human Face | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Most important of all, affection for guns runs deep in the American psyche, as evidenced by the common estimate that 50 million to 60 million U.S. households, about half the total, own at least one gun. And many of those households are convinced that gun ownership is an inalienable right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Arms Race | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Bush's Lukewarm Welcome Though every new President gets something of a honeymoon with his constituency, George Bush's debut as Chief Executive will be marked more by cool realism than by warm affection. The TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week showed that the dearth of popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Cunning, cynical young Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns he has been cut out of his father's $3 million estate, which has gone to an older brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), whom he did not know existed. Ray has long been institutionalized because he is an autistic savant. He has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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