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...private world." Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs. "Poor we were," the elder Presley says, "but trash we weren't. We never had any prejudice." Presley may have been easygoing, but when the country performer Ira Louvin called him "a white nigger," Presley stood...
After all the heat about closed-door meetings and the telephone-book-sized plan to reform health care, President Clinton is taking his wife,Hillary, and chief health-care aide Ira Magaziner off the case-- at least officially. White House officials now say Robert Rubin, the National Economic Council chair, and domestic policy aide Carol Rasco will spearhead the effort to craft a new bill. While the move might seem like a cosmetic bait-and-switch to divert Hillary Clinton's critics, TIME health care writerJanice Castrosays it's a major shift. The next bill, she says, will...
With peace breaking out all over Northern Ireland, British PM John Major apparently couldn't resist the overtures of the Irish Republican Army and agreed to start holding talks with the IRA's Sinn Fein. Earlier on, Major had insisted that the IRA clarify that their Aug. 31 cease-fire was indeed permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London...
Consider the following example. Last year, Crimson president Ira E. Stoll '94 was censured by the paper's executive board for an incident involving him and several female editors...
...impressive 79% of the sample group of 4,369 took part. There were built-in safeguards: some questions were asked more than once in different ways, ensuring that only a motivated liar could easily convey misinformation. Of the major sex surveys to date, says sociologist Ira Reiss of the University of Minnesota, this was "probably the best thought out and has the broadest coverage...