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...cannot slay all the dragons at once. There is no dishonor in slaying them one at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Must America Slay All the Dragons? | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...clearly demonstrate to your opponent that your wrists are handcuffed to the rear-view mirror, thus preventing you from swerving. Opponents who value their lives have no choice but to swerve in this situation. The critical provision here is that the opponent must fear death more than dishonor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Deadly Game of `Chicken' | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Before its Aug. 3 recess, the full Senate is almost certain to follow the ethics committee recommendation and denounce Durenberger for bringing the chamber into "dishonor and disrepute." Durenberger may feel that by enduring a moment of shame and making restitution he puts things right with the world and deserves to retain a place of honor in it. If so, he is ignoring an elementary principle of political morality: those who make the laws are not above them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Durenberger's Comedown . . . | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...Tiempo said, "not a cave of thieves but the major victim of the international drug trade." Potent as their words were, more potent still was the harrowing image of Pulido cut down on his way home from an honest day's work in a land ravaged by dishonor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Deadliest Beat | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

More importantly, however, readers are sure to be disappointed by the book's ending, which Clancy reportedly wrote in one night. On the one hand, it is entirely too tidy to be believable. On the other, its message--of death before dishonor--is too much like the super-patriotism many readers have found offensive before...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Uncanny Realism | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

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