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At the moment, most ordinary blacks seem content to wait, to simply appreciate a government that after all these years represents them. They do not expect BMWs in the driveways tomorrow. But they will not wait forever. Houses must be built. Jobs must be created. Land-the seismic fault running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LAND SINGING TWIN ANTHEMS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

Like good revolutionaries, top Republican lawmakers and thinkers see this crackdown by the ancien ragime at the IRS as a sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POINT OF NO RETURN | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Pope John Paul IIissued "The Gospel of Life," a new encyclical that seeks to address modern discontent with Catholic doctrine on abortion, birth control, mercy killing and euthanasia by linking them as assaults on human dignity.TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingsays the work completes a trilogy of major ethical pronouncements by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POPE'S NEW GOSPEL | 3/30/1995 | See Source »

Shanker cited discontent with the current educational system and the decline in American student's test scores compared with those of students in other countries as the major factors leading to the drive for privatization. He characterized the attitude of the movement as follows: "Because we're falling behind, let...

Author: By Flora Tartakovsky, | Title: Shanker Cautions Against Privatization | 3/24/1995 | See Source »

All war is horrifying. But a special repugnance is reserved for internecine butchery of the sort that has enveloped Algeria (pop. 30 million) ever since the secular regime, widely discredited for its corruption and incompetence, embarked on an ill-fated attempt at reform in 1989. After the government reluctantly agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: BLOODY DAYS, SAVAGE NIGHTS | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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