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Your cover asks, "Should they be cheered--or feared?" Neither. A movement like the Promise Keepers, whose attendance has grown in six years from 4,200 to 1.1 million, is a fad. Like every fad based on emotion and superstition, it will, in time, disappear. The answer to your question: Ignore them! FORREST G. WOOD Bakersfield, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1997 | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Even if Dornan's investigation into voter fraud fails to give him his congressional seat back, Dornan is not willing to disappear from politics anytime soon...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Presidential Hopeful, Former Member of Congress Speaks at Law School | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

Reluctantly you return to choice one and quit. You are officially a loser as you watch your paper disappear from the screen. Of course, in your haste you had not saved it. And you call yourself a Harvard student...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Paper Lost? Tricks For Recovery | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Tonight is a special night for many people on this campus. This evening, dinner excursions will be curtailed. Parties will be about 15 percent less populated, maybe more. The same goes for breakfast tomorrow--and lunch. Hundreds of students will disappear for the day without reappearing until Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Another Friday Night | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...result, Legends of the American Desert (Knopf; 534 pages; $30) is a fascinating and sometimes bewildering profusion of themes that appear, join, separate and disappear like the braided channels of a Southwestern river. It is also an impressive exercise in graceful journalism. Chapters on the Anasazi and Havasupai tribes, for instance, and the Jesuits and Franciscans, don't read like potted histories ploddingly typed from a writer's file cards. There's no dust in this desert history. Colonizers and colonized live in the author's mind; ideas about them boil up, and off he goes in pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHERE RIVERS RUN DRY | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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