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It couldn't happen here, even in a thousand years? Already, a growing "marriage movement," including groups like the Promise Keepers, is working to make divorce lawyers as rare as elevator operators. Since 1997, Louisiana and Arizona have been offering ultratight "covenant marriages," which can be dissolved only in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Women Still Need Men? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Diversity on TV is not exactly a front-burner issue for many African Americans either. And it's likely that Mfume will face some grumbling from civil rights old-liners that any goodwill covenant with the networks that lacks enforcement teeth is not worth much. But Mfume may wind up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

No element of the social contract is more fundamental to our way of life than the sacred covenant between the TV set and our butts. We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What's My Online? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Among other things it is important to keep in mind that the Treaty of Versailles was, put simply, a historical disaster. The League of Nations covenant was only one of its many ill-conceived provisions: while noble in theory, the League was so poorly implemented that even had the United...

Author: By Kevin A. Shapiro, | Title: Letters to the editor | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Another of nearly a dozen white-supremacist tomes by Hoskins is even more incendiary. Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood urges followers to copy the biblical Phineas, who, in the 25th chapter of the Book of Numbers, kills an Israelite man for an interracial marriage. In return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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