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Yes, I knew Courtney wanted to hang with the kids who were most likely to be fast-tracking every experience. She wanted to do what everyone else was doing, to which a parent can sometimes only say, "No, you can't," and to the follow-up of "Why not?," "Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARGARET CARLSON : WHY I SAID NO | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

As a recent college graduate, I'm pretty certain my next job will not require Senate confirmation hearings. But because I live in a world where the depth of a breath is the difference between the President and the guy who asks, "You want fries with that?" this confession makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COURTNEY CARLSON: WHY I SAID YES | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

In some ways an open trial is what they fear most. That could dump a flood of classified information onto the public record. To obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

In the Ames case, the government squeezed a guilty plea from him by promising to drop charges against his wife. It's not clear what comparable leverage it has against Nicholson, except to offer reduced charges in return for a confession. At present, prosecutors don't have enough evidence to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Of course Chambers invited such attention. His 1952 book Witness, a now forgotten 800-page confession and jeremiad, was overly melodramatic and Doom-of-the-Westy in tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRED ASTAIRE MEETS THE SAD-SACK DOSTOYEVSKIAN PUDGE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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