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But the juiciest news last week appeared in the tabloid News of the World, which claimed Diana had made some 300 hang-up calls to a well-connected London art dealer, Oliver Hoare, 48. Hoare feared the calls were the work of terrorists who knew his business is in Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROYALS: Sorry, Wrong Number | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Bush relished the scent of power when Nixon asked the younger man to campaign for him in 1968. But it gave him pause when Nixon took off on the "Ivy Leaguers," Bush being a Yalie. "It was a hang-up with him," Bush said, "but he was on to something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

It may sound like a somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches the Ultimate Health-Care Story | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

That vision, of America's mothers and daughters going into battle and coming back maimed or in body bags, was precisely what traditionalist commanders had fought against for so long. Just last month, the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Merrill McPeak, told a group of female officers, "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Annie Get Your Gun | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Even so, the current paralysis constitutes melancholy proof that leaders who can arouse a populace against dictatorship are not necessarily -- or even usually -- equally proficient at forming a new government. Yeltsin's sojourn in Sochi continues a distressing pattern predating the revolution: Yeltsin tends to follow two or three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Fractured Hopes | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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