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Marianne Gingrich, whose husband Newt is the House Minority Whip who initiated the Wright inquiry, is herself being scrutinized for her role in promoting Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity. Part book (co-authored by a science fiction writer), part polemic, part tax shelter, Window lost money for its investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Nobody, Who Are You? | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

History has recorded traces of a people known as the Khazars, who thrived in the Caucasus region sometime between the seventh and eleventh centuries A.D. and then disappeared. They are not necessarily the subject of Dictionary of the Khazars. Instead, this novel disguised as a reference book seems to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanting Folly | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Hirsch did not set out to produce an entertainment. But this summer, readers seem eager for masochistic diversions. Another finger-wagging polemic about American education, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for eleven weeks. Cultural Literacy is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Appendixitis Cultural Literacy | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

NCI Director Vincent DeVita Jr. called the report "offensive," stressing that the institute's assessments take into account mortality and incidence rates as well as five-year survival rates. David Korn, dean of the Stanford medical school and chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board, agreed. He denounced the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer: What Progress? | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

absurd polemic. The plot involved a fashion model

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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