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Powell is the first Black man ever to become chair of the Joint Chiefs. The youngest four star general ever to hold the post. Powell gained international recognition when he advised former President Bush, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney and the National Security Council during the Persian Gull...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Powell to Address 1993 Graduation | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

Sensitive to the charge that he has become a promise-them-anything candidate, Clinton last week returned to using some tough-talk words like "responsibility," telling the University of New Mexico students, "No more across-the-board something for nothing." But too often Clinton cannot resist the temptation to gull his audiences with the illusion that the path to painless prosperity can be paved solely with the savings from defense cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Countdown Mentality | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...sanity screams at the innuendo, like a gull blackened in an oil spill. It wants to cleanse itself. The poet's version has the power of her black magic, her words on paper. "Where others saw roses," the nieces write, "Anne saw clots of blood." The sick, brilliant woman has the inestimable advantage of being dead and therefore beyond examination on questions of who abused whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pains of The Poet -- And Miracles | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...rustic lodge on Gull Lake in pristine northern Minnesota hums with singsong, flat-voweled excitement. The 500 sensibly dressed welfare workers in the convention crowd usually dish out encouragement for a living. But today they will be on the receiving end from a former recipient who managed to get herself off welfare and onto the best-seller list. Here she is, flashing her big white smile: Melody Beattie, queen of codependency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MELODY BEATTIE: Taking Care of Herself | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...gull flies, the distance is not great: 21 miles from Cape Gris- Nez in France to the famous white chalk cliffs of Dover on the English side. Yet down the centuries the narrow neck of water separating Britain and France has served as one of Europe's most enduring physical and psychological barriers. Only twice have armies crossed it to invade Britain: the Roman legions in 54 B.C. and the one led by William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066. Secure on their sceptered isle, Britons developed their own proud brand of insularity, summed up as "splendid isolation" during the palmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe An Island No More Hello! Allo! | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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