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Freeman first fell in love with acting in the third grade, when he played the title role in a school play, Little Boy Blue. Teachers along the way encouraged him to channel his rambunctiousness into acting, and after a brief stint in the Air Force he headed for Hollywood, naively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: In The Driver's Seat | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Theory two: Appeasing the Conservatives. This is the "right wing conservatives are so stupid, they don't know anything" tack. Believing that conservatives are angry with Bush for his soft Gorbachev-loving persona, the administration sent Quayle out to appease the critics. Meanwhile, back in Malta, Bush was telling Gorbachev...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Dan Quayle: Man or Myth? | 1/5/1990 | See Source »

How can a society so believing in ideals allow the reality of infant mortality to progress as far as it has?

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: esis Thesis Thesis Thesis Thesis The | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

You see, Winners derive enormous moral solace from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 1/3/1990 | See Source »

Gorbachev has his own reason for believing that one Germany is an idea whose time should not come again soon. Reunification is a euphemism for East Germany's voluntary annexation by West Germany. If the G.D.R. merges with the Federal Republic, the Soviet Union could see an ally not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Braking the Juggernaut | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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