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...Supreme Court considers reversing one of its own civil rights rulings, the question is whether a conservative majority is already in place. -- When justice is blind and nameless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

When I ordered my dish at the open window of the apparently nameless restaurant next to the Thai food kitchen, I could see two boys sitting in the kitchen, shelling the peas that I would eat, and scrambling eggs in the hugest wok I had ever seen. Minutes after I placed my order, a supermarket blue-and-white ceramic plate full of "fried rice with pork and shrimps" was placed in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squid, Soup and Soy Sauce: A Chinatown Dinner Party | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...cities as New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. But last week more than 200 antiabortion demonstrators, including many of the 134 seized last month, remained in Atlanta and Fulton County jails. They had stalled processing by giving their names as "Baby Jane Doe" or "Baby John Doe," after the nameless victims of abortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta: Baby Doe Stays in Jail | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...imitate Guangdong. He is even seeking investment from the neighboring province. But the desire for prosperity does not seem as deeply rooted in Hunan as in Guangdong, particularly among older people. "Social morality has deteriorated," complains a 63-year-old retired party cadre in Hunan. "There are no more nameless heroes. Everybody thinks about making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China One for the Money, One Goes Slow | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...think they know Superman and know him well and have known him forever. In fact, we hardly know Superman at all, for the details of his life have been changed again and again, according to either the whims of his owners or the demands of the market. His originally nameless father on Krypton, for example, became Jor-L, then Jor-El (and eventually Marlon Brando). His employer in Metropolis, before it was the Daily Planet, was the Daily Star and then the Evening News. His Luciferian arch-enemy Luthor, the mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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