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A. Either he was insane or he is a great hero. I mean, who acts on his beliefs? Everyone talks tough, but if he truly believed that I was killing babies, he was a brave enough man to stand up and try to kill me and suffer the consequences. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Judge Whose Ideas Nearly Got Him Killed: Howard Broadman | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

But soon he stopped running his fingers through his shaggy brown locks in despair and began to notice a trend. At every Meaningful Moment, it wasn't he, but I, who preempted any tender romantic confession with embarrassed giggles and a sarcastic qualifier.

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Living The Romantic Moment | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

It is a poignant confession of rue, and Ramsay would appear to be a classic sensitive narrator. But Wilson is up to something more, which gives the book considerable strength. Near the end, Ramsay betrays his best friend to, of all people, Raphael Hunter, with serious consequences. No one in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mortal Fools | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

"The unfilmable Naked Lunch." Even this movie's producer called William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel that, and he was right. A gallimaufry of hallucinations, literary gossip and medical info, Burroughs' confession of a hipster junkie is its own X-rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Leaves a Six-Pack | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

So our confession stands: white folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare: A White Secret | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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