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That his family lives on the brink of bankruptcy in a run-down room of the seedy Empire Hotel doesn't really seem to disturb Aaron all that much as he simply goes about doing his own thing. He has managed to trick himself and those around him into believing that everything will be all right. As a result, a sense of calm and stability pervades the first part of the film. As long as Aaron rebounds quickly from his setbacks, nothing is truly troubling. When his adorable younger brother is sent away to relatives because he is too much...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Home Alone, for Real | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Some fundamentals have not been abandoned. While targeted to a broader but still affluent readership, much of the advertising remains the same. One can still indulge in checkbook liberalism, save indigenous peoples on the brink of extinction, help educate innercity children, purchase personalized cartouches and locate points of departure for global heroics, even while deciding which luxury car to purchase. The Tilley hat is still available...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Longing for the Old New Yorker | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...Children and Family Justice Center. Dohrn is married to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, who teaches education at the University of Illinois. They have two children and are rearing the son of fellow radical Katherine Boudin, who is serving 20 years in prison for her role in the 1981 Brink's robbery in which three people were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterlives of the Revolutionaries | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...games back again and on the brink of elimination. But people still care. In the last five months, Hobson has gone from "most likely to be the first manager to be fired" (spring training) to "genius" (April) to "embattled" (May-June tailspin) to "unparalleled motivator and baseball mind" (July revival) to "he's not great...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: On the Bandwagon | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

With the peace talks in Geneva flickering on the brink of collapse, however, such hopes appear forlorn, and for the moment the beleaguered citizens of Mostar's mainly Muslim eastern quarter are surviving day to day on whatever aid can be negotiated past the city's Croat besiegers. Last week Muslim civilians released U.N. troops they had held for more than a week as a shield against Croat shelling, making a resumption of aid possible. But unless peace comes soon, U.N. aid can only postpone the death of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most beautiful and historic cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Siege | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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