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...Gallstone Conspiracy Janet Reno collapses in Mexico. The dorm room of a Chelsea Clinton detractor is searched by the Secret Service. Are there sinister forces at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 11/28/1997 | See Source »

...Gallstone Conspiracy Janet Reno collapses in Mexico. The dorm room of a Chelsea Clinton detractor is searched by the Secret Service. Are there sinister forces at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 11/27/1997 | See Source »

...sinner who will sacrifice himself for the needy willingly if the government will just let him. Objectivists are caricatured as blind followers, as if being convinced by a rational argument were equivalent to obeying some authority's dogma. Ayn Rand's admirers are smeared as "philosophically challenged" by a detractor who invokes Nietzsche and Sartre as historical advocates of reason--a howler which would bring swift retribution in any first-year philosophy class. None of these critics seems to feel willing or able to adduce reasons to reject Ayn Rand's ideas in favor of their own. Objectivism, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attack Against Objectivist Club Unfounded | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Now for the Skate-Off | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Beyond routine complaints about disciplinary penalties, it is hard to find a Whitley detractor. Inmates, of course, may tell a stranger what they think The Man wants to hear. But they have no reason to lie to Keith Nordyke, the attorney appointed by a federal judge to look out for the interests of the state's 20,795 prisoners. Over the past year, Nordyke says, inmate complaint mail has dwindled from 50 letters a month to fewer than 10. At this point, even he is impressed by Whitley. "His attitude is, 'If you see anything wrong, let me know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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