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Explosive attacks on the powers that be didn't start with the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. In December 1905, in Caldwell, Idaho, a sagebrush railroad town near Boise, a bomb attached to a garden gate killed the state's former Governor, Frank Steunenberg. Blame for the murder was quickly pinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD WESTERN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Knight, working as the firm's lobbyist, smoothed the way for the donations, the contracts and an unusual personal visits to the firm's headquarters by Gore himself. The little-known Knight probe, under way for some time, could draw the Vice President deeper into a scandal that has its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AL GORE'S CASH MACHINE | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

The Monday night before last was a striking example of the reaches of my problem. I found myself caught in a terribly frustrating embarrassment of riches: At 9 p.m. I was forced to choose from among a hotly contested game pitting my Mets against the division-leading Braves (Sportschannel New...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Small Screen Summer | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

It's hard to judge a generation by its statistics. Five years ago, my generation was a group of overstuffed slackers; today we're Gordon Gekkos. An unlikely transformation. But there's at least one statistic that resonates: more of us are taking a full five years to get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEACE IS AN XCELLENT ADVENTURE | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Comets have long been associated with war, upheaval and disaster, and as the light from Hale-Bopp faded in the California sky early last Tuesday, U.S. Army Major Russ Oaks got a taste of all three. Oaks was participating in one of the Pentagon's most ambitious and elaborate war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR WAR | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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