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Ever the salesman, Limbaugh has created brand names for political groups. Do-gooder liberals are "compassion fascists," and "commie libs" are pretty much anyone to the left of David Duke. San Francisco is "the West Coast branch of the Kremlin." Limbaugh, a rock-ribbed skeptic, believes that reports of the death of Soviet communism have been greatly exaggerated. A "Gorbasm" is the sound people make when hailing Mikhail Gorbachev -- "and of course every Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...this time next year there will be hardly a branch of the University administration that has not had at least one major appointment by Rudenstine. From FAS to the Office for Affirmative, Action, this is Rudenstine's prime opportunity to determine the makeup of the administration that will bear his name...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Appointments to Make, Appointments to Keep | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...this time next year there will be hardly a branch of the University administration that has not had at least one major appointment by Rudenstine. From FAS to the Office for Affirmative Action, this is Rudenstine's prime opportunity to determine the makeup of the administration that will bear his name...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Appointments to Make, Appointments to Keep | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...that it routinely handled arms moving out of Eastern Europe and masked technology transfers from the West into Soviet bloc countries. The East bloc trade was so lucrative that Abedi traveled to Moscow in 1985 to promote more weapons deals and to lobby for permission to open B.C.C.I. branch offices in the Soviet Union. Former employees have told TIME that B.C.C.I. associates found it easy to bribe arms-factory managers and officials within the Soviet Union because of low pay, but that perestroika had cut into B.C.C.I. profits there. Reason: some government officials who favored the bank because of payoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals: Not Just a Bank | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

This sinuous story begins near its conclusion, in June 1985. Jan O'Deigh, an employee at a Brooklyn branch of the New York Public Library, receives a note from her former lover Franklin Todd: Stuart Ressler is dead. Grieving, Jan remembers the day some three years earlier when Todd first appeared at her desk and requested information about Ressler. "What was the man's line of work?" she had asked. "Don't know for sure," came the reply. "Something hard. Something objective, I mean." And why did he want to know about Ressler? "I work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is the Meaning of Life? | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

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