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YOUR COVER OF THE YOUNG SOLDIER with the question "Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?" was haunting. As a Vietnam veteran and Native American, I can say a triple "Hell, no." To send fine young people into a horrendous mess to die in a pool of their own blood is not to be excused. Your articles were great, but they failed to convey the worry we older soldiers have for the well-being of our younger soldier brothers and sisters. Congress and the President: Don't waste their young lives! GARY J. VACHON Peoria, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1995 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...want to get the wording just right, because if you mess up, you won't get an interview," Schliemann said...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Seniors Brave Snow to Meet Spring Recruiting Deadline | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

...make Steve Forbes richer. It is the stock market that raises the capital to help new companies get started and old companies expand, both of which grease the economic skids and create jobs and incomes the government can tax. In fact, the only easy way out of the deficit mess, aside from printing extra dollars on the presses in the Treasury Department, is to speed up economic growth, and that requires more capital investment via the stock market. If a capital-gains tax cut could accelerate this process, then bring it on. The economies in East Asia are growing faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TAX CUT FOR JOE AVERAGE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

EVEN AS SHIMON PERES STEPPED smoothly into the role of Israel's Prime Minister, bringing a welcome sense of normality to a traumatized nation, he found a supremely embarrassing mess awaiting him: the stained reputation of the vaunted domestic security service, known as the Shin Bet, which answers directly to the Prime Minister. Already shaken by the security lapses that allowed the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROTTEN SAFETY NET | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Houston admits the marriage has been rocky, but says the media have overplayed their troubles: "I could tell you about some fouled-up marriages, but it ain't my business. They want to mess with us all the time . I married the brother I wanted to be with, and [the media] didn't understand it or like it, so therefore they tried to f---- with me; white America tried to f---- with me. They thought, Hard boy, good girl; it doesn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITNEY HOUSTON: NO MISS PRISSY | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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