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...Dole wants to beautify America's soul. She says that as First Lady she would organize a campaign called Give Five, which would encourage Americans to donate 5% of their income to charity and 5% of their time to volunteerism. "It would be a massive program," she says, "and dovetail nicely with my work at the Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...truth, Israelis themselves don't agree where their country should go, and they proved it twice over in the divided, fragmented Knesset they elected to govern with Netanyahu. They gave no clear-cut mandate to any leaders, vesting large parliamentary powers in small parties whose priorities sometimes dovetail and sometimes contradict one another as well as the major parties with which they will align. So what will happen when narrow interests intersect with global diplomacy, when domestic divisions come into confrontation with international demands, when campaign promises clash? Instability, paralysis, even folly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIGHT WAY TO PEACE? | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...behavior. Special squads are dispatched to hit high-crime hot spots, while others track down illegal guns. Precinct detectives now interrogate suspects not just about the crimes they may have committed but also about other gun and drug dealers they know. Eventually, Bratton believes, all the policies begin to dovetail, and crime drops through the floor. "Most criminals commit multiple crimes," he says. "We're processing crime data faster than ever before, so we can identify patterns early and stop them after three crimes instead of 30. If you do that city-wide, you'll knock the crime rate down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE GOOD APPLE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

While the loading bays may or may not ruin the building's look, the irony of Rizzo's objections is that the rest of the renovation plans dovetail nicely with Memorial Hall's history...

Author: By Joshua A. Gluck, | Title: 'Mem' And Its Long, (Still) Controversial History | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...alcoholic? Officially, the subject is taboo, and no one close to the President talks about it. But some Yeltsin watchers claim to see a pattern in the President's political gaffes -- like the recent emotional outburst when he refused to see visiting former U.S. President Richard Nixon -- that might dovetail with weekend drinking bouts. Russian journalists claim they have been prevented from covering the President's return to Moscow from trips because he is too inebriated to meet the press after a long flight of tippling. The widespread impression Yeltsin has made on a nation renowned for its fondness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headache of State | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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