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...spite of revelations about the increasing pathology of the family, escalating rates of divorce and statistics which confirm that the median duration of marriage is a mere 7.1 years, couples continue to take that leap of faith. More than seventy percent of the population from 18-55 years old is married...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Marriage Lives On | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

...cheap shots. When Iroquois representatives visit the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they get warm praise from Benjamin Franklin. "Well done, Franklin," a colleague confides later. "You do know your savages." (Franklin's smug reply: "Thank you.") Still, these films show that TV history can do more than just confirm our prejudices and indulge our nostalgia (as in the recent orgy of Kennedy retrospectives). It can actually tell us something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Turner Goes Native Tnt's | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Stone said that only after he suggested in a preliminary report that the FBI had prior knowledge of the danger of mass suicide did FBI agents confirm that their behavioral experts had predicted that possibility...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Prof. Faults FBI in Waco Raid | 11/30/1993 | See Source »

...interviews earlier this month, Director of Internal Audit Michael J. Barone and Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall would not confirm or deny the existence of an audit...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Police Department Undergoing Changes | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...several Crimson sports squads can confirm, sponsorships pursued within the guidelines set forth by the NCAA, can be a boon to collegiate athletes programs everywhere...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: An Altogether Happy And Innocent Friendship | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

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