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When Thomas was seven, the house burned to the ground and the family moved to Savannah; Leola and her daughter lived with an aunt while the two boys were sent to the well-tended home of their grandfather Myers Anderson. For the first time Thomas lived in a house with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

Not so the principal character of the new novel. Rob Wyatt, a 32-year-old lawyer, is not even sure that he wants to hear his own monologues. He sees himself as a philosophical bigamist wedded to two perspectives: "Robert the Serious, a believer; also Rob the Ironic, jokester and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining Men | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Consider the evidence. Zondervan, a leading U.S. publisher of Fundamentalist and Evangelical literature, has issued an updated version of John F. Walvoord's 1974 best seller, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, with an initial print order of -- get this -- 1 million copies. (Nine were reportedly ordered by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Apocalypse Now? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

In the long run-up to war with Iraq, U.S. allies often seemed to be little more than hitchhikers on an American battlewagon. Assembling in the sandy arena was the most motley mixture of nationalities and flags on one front since the Napoleonic Wars -- and most of it seemed intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allies A War Machine That Works -- So Far | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

And anyway, Saddam may believe he can in some sense win. Given the size, technical sophistication and firepower of the forces arrayed against him, that looks like the wildest miscalculation of all. But the cost of proving him wrong, in blood, economic chaos and political upheaval, could be ghastly -- and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Options | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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