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...once again, we wuss out. But this time it's your fault: You won't be here. Venerable Thanksgiving arrives once again, sending us home on the Delta Shuttle. Need turkey-stuffing tips? See "How To: Stuff a Turkey" (page eight). In our hearts will be those left to fend for themselves. We apologize that FM listings (starting page 16) end on Wednesday, just when stranded students might start looking beyond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Editor's Note: Shoot Me | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...rival gaining on him is Senator John McCain: in New Hampshire he has picked up 13 points in a month, standing at 23% to Bush's 43% in one poll. But McCain is even more critical of the G.O.P. than Bush, so Bush's words could conceivably help him fend off McCain. Forbes will label Bush a closet tax-and-spend liberal in a massive TV assault set to begin late this year, and Bush is preparing for the attack. Sources told TIME that Bush held focus groups last week in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, showing gauzy biographical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Triangulator | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Though outrun by some of the finest teams that both New England and the nation had to offer, the men were able to fend off in-state rivals Boston University and UMass, which finished ninth and 10th...

Author: By Colin S. Donnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: X-Country Freshmen Shine at Meet of Champions | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...behind those impressive numbers lies a social revolution more profound than any ever seen in the Western world. Hundreds of millions of people once anchored by the certainties of guaranteed jobs and social services for life are now being cast adrift to fend for themselves in the turbulent waters of the market economy. "By closing down thousands of state enterprises that were losing money, China is creating unemployment on a scale never seen before anywhere in the world," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "That creates an enormous threat of social instability, which makes the government very insecure about its ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At 50, China Cheers a Communism Mao Might Not Recognize | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Americans. And the moral quandary of whether, as the world's only superpower, the U.S. has a duty to stop genocide is for Buchanan a no-brainer: unless vital interests like oil are involved, we should mind our own business and let those marked for death fend for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Buchanan | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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