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...evening with their girlfriends present the best targets. If they want to impress with their sensitivity, they will hand over some change, or even a bill. And if they've had a little much to drink, if they want to impress with their meanness, often their companion will talk them...
...journalists, caught up in the swirl of fast-breaking events, it is sometimes easy to neglect the longer view, to forget the lessons of history. At TIME, we try to make the past a frequent companion. Every so often the magazine does a cover story on a figure of both historical significance and current concern: Adam Smith (the future of capitalism, 1975), Thomas Jefferson (the nation's Bicentennial, 1975) and, this week, the American past. Our subject, on the eve of Independence Day, is history itself, specifically the growing reappraisal by historians and ordinary citizens alike of the civics...
...long-haired young man in blue jeans was due in Paris in a few hours. Standing in Rome's Fiumicino Airport, he looked at his Air France boarding pass and realized he had been seated in the coach section. He was thus unable to be with a companion who was ticketed in first class. "I can't upgrade this," he said, "I don't have enough money with...
That remarkable journey inward now has a fitting companion. Kingston's new book is a voyage out, an attempt to understand others by inhabiting them. The others are men, China Men, heirs to an ancient tradition of oppressing women. A scene early in the book sets Kingston off on her imaginative quest. As a young girl, the author watches her father at work in his laundry in Stockton, Calif. Trained as a scholar in China, he is subject to black moods and bitterness over his low estate. His angriest curses vilify women's bodies. The girl both understands...
Investigators combed the site of the shooting for evidence and interviewed more than 400 people nationwide. They turned up no clues, but they did manage virtually to dispel some theories. One was that Jordan's attractive blond companion, Martha Coleman, 36, a longtime civil rights worker in Fort Wayne, was in any way involved in the attack. She had just driven him from her home to the motel when he was shot. After intensively questioning Coleman, her four former husbands and several male acquaintances, investigators found no evidence linking them with the shooting...