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...resemble its former self; and that the "bold tyrants watching to see whether 'ethnic cleansing' is a policy the world will tolerate" (to use Secretary of State Warren Christopher's words) will have their answer? What will Clinton the saladmaker do and say then? He'll ignore the capitulation, crow that his artful diplomacy produced a negotiated peace and turn anew to the domestic battles that interest him most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: From Sarajevo to Needle Park | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...have earned enough miles to get the next leg free. I can even earn tickets while six miles high! (Vertical miles don't count, however, and horizontal ones are not what they seem: the Frequent Flyer is the only bird of prey that flies even more directly than a crow -- thus for a standard 3,000-mile cross-country flight, I'm lucky to get 2,470 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please get up, Daddy!" When he died, Mrs. Evers noted in her testimony, Medgar Evers was working for the simplest things: to have black school-crossing guards, to make it possible for blacks to try on hats and clothes in department stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Going the Last Mile with Medgar | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

SPACE: After Hubble, NASA Can Crow Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...wonderful that people from the subcontinent are being read. And I am particularly pleased that he has written in this realistic, simple, easy, readable, entertaining style because then more people will read writers like us. For example, one of the best reviews was when somebody had written about The Crow Eaters, "It is a book you can whole-heartedly enjoy, rather than respectfully admire." I think Rushdie unfortunately falls into the category of `difficult to read, but respectfully admired.' But Vikram is much lighter and I think would be accessible to a lot more people. But I must clarify, when...

Author: By Anita Jain, | Title: `Any People, Any Culture' | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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