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Wilkins is now appealing to the Butler County Common Pleas Court.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The News Of the Weird | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

In the past, the Supreme Court has rejected these pleas. But it may reconsider the issue this spring when it takes up the case of Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council. Real estate developer David Lucas bought two lots on the Isle of Palms in 1986 with the intention of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demanding Payment for Good Behavior | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

As the only communist dictator still in power outside Asia, Fidel Castro is showing signs of desperation. Last week, ignoring all pleas for mercy from around the globe, he gave the go-ahead to the execution of a Cuban exile and stepped up his campaign against disaffected citizens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Standing Firm By Itself | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

It isn't easy to single out the low point of the trade mission to Japan that George Bush completed last week. Was it that his pleas for stepped-up Japanese purchases of American auto parts belittled the presidency and made him seem the tool of overpaid corporate CEOs? Or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade and Politics: Mission Impossible | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

Bessie, the care giver, connects tenderly with her harsher sister's teenage sons, one a powder keg of anger who burned down his neighborhood, the other a bespectacled Milquetoast who perpetually retreats into a book. She also has a wonderful speech recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whole Point of Life | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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