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...Sabahs also instituted a cradle-to-grave welfare system. Education, health care and every public utility were provided free, or nearly so. And every Kuwaiti -- even the illiterate -- was guaranteed a government job for life, as intriguing a way of distributing the booty as was ever invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...substantial body of legal opinion backs the view of California Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Can Send Us to War? | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Despite justifiable worries about close calls in the sky, the collision of two Northwest airliners at Detroit's Metro Airport last week suggests that airplane passengers face grave danger even on the ground. The accident, in which eight people were killed and 24 injured, raised a life-and-death question: If runways are so foggy that a pilot can miss two turns and wind up in the path of a plane rolling toward takeoff, why is the airport still open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airplanes Collide: Lost in The Fog | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...manner alienated many of the small children in attendance. This is not of itself a flaw--the murky moral conflict and mediocre acting hurt this production more than the play's tone does. Only Lithgow, as the black-clad, cigarette-smoking Death, brings vigor to his character, but his grave voice fits the part more exactly than his mannerisms...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Unconventional Christmas | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

...that the manuscript Paul is carrying is not about Misery and contains cusswords besides, she forces him to burn it. Learning that his latest Misery novel will be the last (he has killed her off), Annie forces Paul to write a new one, rescuing her beloved character from the grave. Finding that Paul has tried to escape this task, she sweetly explains she is obliged to rebreak his legs and does so as calmly as if she were administering aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Deadly Game of Nursing Care | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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