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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious President does everything he can to secure a meaningful mandate," says Ed Rollins, who directed Reagan's 1984 campaign. "And that means doing your best to elect a Congress of your own party. If you don't even try, then you deserve to be hit when you moan about how everything would just be fine if it weren't for those lousy Democrats on the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Fears and Choices on the Road to '92 | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...lowly sophomore, did not know the Crimson Key guy. I screamed out our clue and waited for an answer. I let out a small squeak--I was too crushed for a full moan of agony...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Prefect Crime | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

...onetime insurance salesman scribbles on, apparently undaunted by the prospect of world peace, although Jack Ryan, Clancy's doughty, repeat- performance hero and deputy director of the CIA, admits to a few worries: "Look, I'm not one of those right-wing idiots who moan for a return to the Cold War, but then, at least, the Russians were predictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother of All Potboilers | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

There are two kinds of media bashers in the U.S.: those who can't make a few bucks from it, and those who can. The first consists of millions of ordinary Americans who don't like journalists but do nothing more than moan about them. The second group is made up of full-time bashers who publish a lot of newsletters. Some of these professionals have a galling charm, a refreshing sassiness, perhaps even a mild sense of humor. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Media's Wacky Watchdogs | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Thomas once said that civil rights leaders just "bitch, bitch, bitch, moan and whine." Years ago, he did complain publicly about discrimination, over an incident at the seminary in Missouri. Thomas told a friend, Jerry Hunter, now general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, that he was walking past a room when a television news flash proclaimed that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot. He heard a white student say something like, "It's about time you got the s.o.b." That day, Thomas told another friend, he decided that he would not stay at a school that didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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