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...There's a whole part of the equation that [Phelps] left out and that's money and the spectacle of big-time sports," said Dan D. Schwartz, 31, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "We're up against a huge, one might say corrupt, system...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Phelps Discusses Reform of College Athletics | 10/4/1995 | See Source »

America has become a society that makes too much of its living by marketing its own Impure Thoughts: a corrupt dynamic. Secular realists reply to the idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIFTEEN CHEERS FOR ABSTINENCE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...proves he is as good at disinformation as he is at disentertainment. Nomi gets one job after having sex with the hotel's entertainment director (Kyle MacLachlan) and a better one after pushing the headliner down a flight of stairs. She has no soul to sell, no morals to corrupt. Kinda like the film. For 2 hrs. 11 min., Showgirls offers a slumming party inside the moviemakers' libidos. Ladies and gents, no matter how curious or horny you think you are, you don't want to be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: VALLEY OF THE DULLS | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...restrictions on ownership and the repatriation of profits. Suddenly financial gurus touted India as the next hot spot for investment. Also reformed have been laws that made it impossible for foreigners to own a majority of an Indian company and forced them to get licenses from a web of corrupt bureaucracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO PASSAGE TO INDIA | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Maybe Gephardt should send Mayor Giuliani. Gingrich attacked New York City, calling it a corrupt, over-unionized drain on the rest of the country. New York City Mayor Giuliani responded that while his city sends $9 billion more to Washington than it gets back in federal spending, Georgia gets $1 billion more than it pays in taxes. Giuliani added that Gingrich's own congressional district is a leading recipient of federal pork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT TO NYC DROP DEAD: | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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