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The talk of the whole country is the economy; the survival of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani could depend on how well he handles economic problems and the discontent they breed. No one is suggesting he could lose his re- election bid in voting scheduled for June 11, but his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy of Terror | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

Working on the book triggers in Margaret profound discontent with the state of her life. Dissatisfied with domesticity, no longer content to be utterly reliant upon her husband, she begins challenging previously assumed verities. Convinced that her husband is having an affair with one or more of his undergraduates, she...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Rameau's Pastiche | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

The chronicle of the federal drug bust known as Operation Swordfish, briefly summarized, reads like an episode of Miami Vice scripted by John le Carre. It began in December 1980 in Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Failure of Verve | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Last summer a journalist named Bryan Appleyard rode this discontent to the top of England's best-seller lists with a neoconservative polemic called Understanding the Present, subtitled Science and the Soul of Modern Man. In Britain, the book inspired headlines such as FOR GOD'S SAKE FIRE THE BIG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bang? | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

The Tigers (6-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy) roar into the Hub today with an undefeated record in the Ancient Eight, a five game winning streak, and the top spot in the Ivy League standings. They were the pre-season favorites to take the Ancient Eight title, and as of...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Crimson vs. Tigers | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

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