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It is wrong to expect too much coherence from any quarter, writers on foreign policy warn: with the end of the cold war, the world is formless -- no | longer Manichaean, no longer organized around two neat poles of ideology. America's conception of its national interests and its moral role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Good Intentions: In Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism . | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Between these poles, Jack Lemmon contributes a self-justifying monologue about a long-ago but devastating marital infidelity that is haunting in its self-delusions. Jennifer Jason Leigh as the mom with a sideline in dirty talk and Anne Archer as a woman whose part-time job is clowning for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart of American Darkness | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

In the hypnotic Chinese pole act, for which the circus is justly renowned, 16 acrobats in swirled leotards scramble up, down and around a set of four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

The typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate -- or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole -- and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Globally, prostitution plays a significant role in transmitting the AIDS virus. In Haiti, once a favored vacation spot for U.S. homosexuals, the virus flourished for years until political turmoil and negative publicity shut down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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