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While this family has never been one to deny that "such things happen to them," they are unable to accept that anyone would ever find out. "We squelch [the world], blind ourselves to it with propriety and high-minded-ness and good cheer; act as though there's a few...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Journalist's First Novel Tells of Stark, Brooding 'Midwinter' | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

Surprisingly little of what went on during meetings of the Overlap Group ever made it into the press, but documents generated by the federal investigation challenge the popular view of academe as a bastion of high-minded collegiality. At regular intervals, financial-aid officers met to compare the aid packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY COLLEGES COST TOO MUCH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

They are obviously envious of greater celebrity status. Now that might seem a lowly purpose to attribute to such high-minded individuals as Carville and McCurry. But don't fool yourself: both are astute political fighters aware that the ring is inside the television, and that it is controlled by...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: K-School Couch Potatoes | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

For now, at least, Coleman and a chorus of like-minded gurus may well have it right. Since the Dow stood at 3300 four years ago, the tireless trend of the market has reflected an astonishingly resilient and inflation-free U.S. expansion that, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THE DOW TOO PUMPED? | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

A journalist, Cleo Pira, befriends the dogs and learns their story. Their transformation began a century before, in the crazed ambition of a German surgeon to develop a race of unstoppable soldiers. This Dr. Frankenstein immigrated to the Canadian wilderness, where he and his successors botched generations of malamutes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A HOST OF DEBUTS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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