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...think that Vice President George Bush was offending Hispanics when he called his three Mexican American grandchildren the "little brown ones" is highly unlikely...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Que Pasa, George? | 8/19/1988 | See Source »

Soviet educators worry that such skewed texts in history and other subjects may stifle creative thinking. Worse, the combination of bad books and ideologically rigid pedagogy may put Soviets at a competitive disadvantage in the world arena. "I'm ashamed to say it, but my grandchildren study more or less from the textbooks that I used as a child before the war," one man wrote to Pravda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Fresh Breath of Heresy | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

More and more, the remaining Ybor City cigar makers are bringing their grandchildren and great-grandchildren back to their old neighborhood for a look around or a day at one of the frequent festivals that celebrate the neighborhood's rich heritage. When they close their eyes and take a deep, long breath, they claim, they can still smell the sweet aroma of cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Soft Whiffs of Memory | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Except when Helms is doting on his six grandchildren, he rarely relaxes. He types as many as 50 letters a week to friends and constituents, pecking with two fingers on an old Royal manual. To a woman fretting over her mother's ill health, Helms wrote that his own mother had believed in the curative powers of baked apples. In another letter he wrote of the gay-rights movement: "I view it as something of a nightmare that the Sodomites are so brazen . . . These obnoxious, repulsive people are anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...more freedom than a bedbug," insists one. "In this respect, Spinoza was right." Another tells how jealousy drove him crazy: "I now hated all women. Lifting my hands to heaven, I swore never to marry." The narrator asks, "Did you keep your word?" The laconic response: "I have six grandchildren." Singer's people seldom shy away from expounding on the mysteries of existence: "People often say that one cannot understand the ways of the Almighty. Yet the ways of human beings can be just as perplexing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Din of Demanding Voices | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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