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Losing three years ago humanized Conner, at least momentarily, and winning again may amplify his legend incredibly, beyond the wharves to the plains. "The real thing that saved my sanity in '83," he says, "was that in my heart I knew I had done everything I could. But the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

That loudspeaker will amplify his thoughts on a range of issues, including the nuclear arms race. Reagan and Gorbachev ought to meet for a summit in Hiroshima, he suggests: "That would be a poetic way of dealing with politics." Uppermost, however, is Wiesel's role as a witness to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEACE: Elie Wiesel | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

I am taking the time to revise and amplify your report of my comments in order to correct any false impression that I am an enemy of welfare state liberalism who adheres to some marginal, exotic brand of ultra-radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not So | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

The impetus has come largely from the Democrats, who control all the Southern state legislatures and thus have the power to set primary dates. They have long felt that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February give the Snow Belt an inordinate voice in picking the party's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South Shall Rise Again: Mega Tuesday | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Both critics have a point; Cooper's characterization of Natty Bumppo, the sharpshooter who boasts, "What I can see, I can hit at a hundred yards, though it were only a mosquitoe's eye," shuttles uneasily from stolid frontiersman to animated cartoon. Yet the surrounding Delaware, Iroquois and Sioux are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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