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...demagogue's dazzle. It was more infrared, the kind that warms without burning. He seemed comfortable, respectable, most of all normal--too normal to run for the White House, which meant that he became the most popular candidate on the landscape without lifting a finger or spending a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENERAL LETDOWN | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...expecting to benefit from it. The prison construction and maintenance industry is rapidly growing--and we can reward our constituents by funding the building of new jails in our districts. In a few years, the prison industry will make the military-industrial complex look like a five-and-dime store...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: A Plan for Everyone | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...race, where he has "not spent a dime." Winters said he prefers in the coming two weeks to maintain his low profile, instead using the time to prepare for his students at Harvard...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: City Council Candidate Teaches Harvard Class | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

...What I knew about academic finance would fit on a dime," Powell writes...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Powell Memoirs Reveal Job Offer At Harvard in '82 | 9/26/1995 | See Source »

DIED. SELMA BURKE, 94, artist; in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Burke rose to prominence in the creative caldron of New York City's "Harlem Renaissance." You may be carrying her best-known work at this very moment--the profile of Franklin Roosevelt that appears on the dime, which is based on a drawing Burke rendered on butcher paper after a 1943 encounter with F.D.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 11, 1995 | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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