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Last Friday Dubberstein failed to appear for his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Assuming he had fled, Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. issued a warrant for his arrest. Dubberstein, however, had not turned fugitive. His body was found in his friend's apartment, where, investigators said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Justice | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

The journey itself takes on epic proportions, though like most great Russian picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Hollow Spirits | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps it is Walter Mondale's fate that much of his recent life has been devoted to wiping out a public confession made nine years ago. As political farewells go, his was extraordinary. A man who set out to become President decided to toss it all and tell the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mondale: I Am Ready Now | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Safire is widely acclaimed as a stylist. Indeed, his weekly columns on language in the Sunday Times Magazine and more than 100 other newspapers evoke more mail, much of it combative, than his weekday political "Essay." Says Safire: "When people notice I have made an error, their eyes light up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rarely Safe, Very Rarely Sorry | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

On the long shelf of Koestler's work (six novels, 30 nonfiction books), no volume is as memorable or seems more likely to last. This searing tale of the Soviet Union's 1936-38 purge trials, and the gradual extraction of a false confession from an old revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rootless Cosmopolitan of the Age | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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