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The hottest ethical issue for journalists these days is where to draw the line between two colliding rights, the individual's right to privacy and the public's right to know -- and then, having drawn the line, how to avoid being pulled across it by cunning manipulators or by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Out Or Not to Out | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Regarding Henry, Mike Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Realm of Sigh-Fi | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

That's when Prince of Thieves finally jolts awake. Robin orchestrates a cunning climactic assault, the Merry Men's arrows sizzle through the sky like happy Scuds, and the bustle of bodies and cameras produces congenial movie movement. Two of the actors carry this larkish spirit throughout the film. Geraldine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stranded In Sherwood Forest | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Calling Robert John Koch a ladies' man is an understatement. Police say Koch, 51, is the "Sweetheart Swindler," a cunning con man who left broken hearts and empty bank accounts across the country during 10 years of scams that involved more than 100 women. Authorities believe that Koch may be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: Crimes of The Heart | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

But falsifying data lay outside our moral universe. The least you could do as a scientist was record exactly what you observed (in ink, in notebooks that never left the lab). The most you could do was arrange the experimental circumstances so as to entrap the elusive It and squeeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Science, Lies and The Ultimate Truth | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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