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He has walked through the Great Wall of China, levitated himself across the Grand Canyon and "vanished" the Statue of Liberty (though we suspect he just got it to duck underwater). Now Vegas megamagician David Copperfield attempts his most astounding feat: filling a Broadway theater with skeptical New Yorkers paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Green Tree represents the rapier edge of a red-hot specialty: the business of making loans to people with damaged credit at interest rates that start at high and extend to very high and nosebleed. Depending on where you sit--whether you are the lender or the borrower--this is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUB-PRIME TIME | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

DRUGS Elevated drug czar to Cabinet level, filling the post with a retired four-star general. Has proposed a $15-billion 1997 budget for fighting drug use, an increase of 9.3%. Promises to spend more on antidrug education and treatment programs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THEY STAND | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Though the Centennial State is known for its spectacular natural beauty, more than half of Coloradans live in the Denver metropolitan area. Politically, the state seems marked by equally sharp peaks and valleys: the first state to enact term limits for state representatives in 1990, in 1992 it approved Measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: COLORADO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Democrats are hoping Flanagan's election two years ago--filling the seat of indicted Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski--was a fluke caused by Rostenkowski's legal shenanigans. But Flanagan, the first Republican representative from Chicago in more than 30 years, has acquitted himself well in Washington, earning positions on three major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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