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...that still possible? Dole's advisers talk up voters' lingering doubts about Clinton's credibility. But the Republican hopeful could be creating a credibility chasm of his own. His proposed tax cuts are so enormous--$551 billion over six years, according to the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee--as to leave him wide open to charges that they will cause the federal deficit to balloon. And thanks in no small part to the decades-long preaching of a former Senator named Robert J. Dole, polls lately indicate the public prefers lower deficits to lower taxes. So, in fact, do Republican Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALCULATING DOLE: 15% OR BUST | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that the whole point of the Mob--the purpose of looting pension funds, intimidating building contractors, throwing deadbeats into canals with concrete shoes--was to make its board of directors extremely wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: HOODS HAVE FEELINGS TOO | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...joint statement, both candidates praised the agreement, calling it a major step towards campaign reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld, Kerry Cap Spending | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...technological godsend, dubbing her the "Baby of the Century." However, theologians and some scientists sounded ethical alarms. Others questioned whether the girl conceived in a petri dish could ever lead a normal life. The answer? Almost. According to London's Daily Mail, Brown works in a burger joint and is studying to be a school nurse--but is reportedly buoyed by a trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown is a firm believer in the technique that brought her into the world. She told the Daily Mail: "I want to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 5, 1996 | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...manner of tough-talking coaches everywhere, like to grumble about all the extra hurdles. As Sloan says when O'Brien blames a radio interview for his late arrival at Washington State University's weight room, and then stops for a chat with every other jock in the joint, "No one's gonna want to talk to his ass if he wins a silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN VS. DAN | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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