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If you are dying, you may view Dr. Jack Kevorkian as a courageous crusader for your rights. If you are a doctor, he may seem more like a cheap purveyor of easy death. Either way, he has become the lightning rod of the right-to-die movement and a gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Death Strikes Again | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

The fellow to blame for this predicament is incumbent Buddy Roemer, a reform-minded technocrat who fancied himself a crusader for good government but ultimately fell on his own sword. Though a man of ample charm, Roemer managed to alienate voters with a haughty Harvard-bred hubris and a stubborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Duke of Louisiana | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

The odds of joining the flourishing ranks of lotto millionaires are still longer than the risk of being struck by lightning. About 90 million players will ring up $20.6 billion in ticket sales this year. So far, 34 states have joined the lottery gold rush, raking in vital revenues for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life At The End of the Rainbow | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Even for those who win big, there's always the chance that lightning might just strike twice, as it did five times even before Don Wittman's incredible luck. And then there is George Magalio, 49, owner of an office-supply company in Flemington, N.J. Using his own system to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life At The End of the Rainbow | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Though Anita Hill brought the issue into the spotlight, she was preceded by another highly visible, impressive and articulate woman who helped shape the national debate. When Stanford University neurosurgeon Frances Conley resigned her post this year to protest the behavior of her male colleagues, she forced men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Crimes | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

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