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A MURDERED COURIER, HIS BODY DIScovered on the rim of a New Mexico canyon; an attache case stuffed with the usual large sum of money; any number of strange disappearances: WHITE SANDS bedazzles mainly by the speed and dexterity with which it shuffles and deals its assorted plot elements. Eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Apr. 20, 1992 | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

The buildings in the seventeenth-andeighteenth-century town of Quebec weren'tperfect-they were crooked and lived-in and worn.The cobblestones weren't perfect but filthy andcrumbling, broken by horse drawn carriages thattoppled over, dirtied by horses who left trails ofstench and defecation.

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quasi-Euro Old Quebec: Tacky Theme-Park City | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

The most Kennedy did, despite some private doubts in his last months, was to undermine Diem's crooked Saigon regime--not exactly a profile in courage, especially after all Kennedy had tolerated from Diem and his cronies. At no point did Kennedy, after three years of steadily increasing violence, fundamentally...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

"I don't think [the ethics legislation] was necessary," Russell says. "This makes it look like people think we're crooked. No one on the council is crooked."

Author: By Melissa Lee and Mark L. Ruberg, S | Title: A Councillor's Financial Activities Come Under the Magnifying Glass | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

Last week heated Duke-Edwards arguments reverberated throughout the state, from radio talk shows to restaurants, bars and business offices. A record 64,000 people turned out at the last minute to register to vote in the Nov. 16 runoff election. Audrey Triche, a computer operator in Jefferson Parish, near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Duke of Louisiana | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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