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Under either of the two "three strikes" schemes the Senate has already passed (the House has yet to act), a violent felon could be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole if he committed a third, federal crime following two previous state convictions. As currently written, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Tough. But Smart? | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Indeed it is. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that, by George, Gershwin is right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gershwin, By George | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

No one really believes such a practiced sound bite, least of all the skaters themselves. But Tonya Harding is not -- nor has she ever been -- like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

The irony of our present situation is that moral laxness has always existed at the top levels of our government--the media has just kept quiet about it. Even though we compare the cynical temper of our country today to the optimism of the early 1960s, Camelot was more illusion...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: The Politics of Our Values | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

The Rangers also manage to deliver a message about coping with adolescence. In one episode the Rangers wind up trapped on Rita's Island of Illusion, and their bodies dematerialize as they grow more frightened about their chance of escape. The heroes rematerialize only when they start believing in themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Raters | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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