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...former apostolic delegate to Washington. According to National Security Adviser Clark, the Pope and Reagan referred to the ) "miraculous" fact that they had survived. Clark said the men shared "a unity of spiritual view and a unity of vision on the Soviet empire: that right or correctness would ultimately prevail in the divine plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Alliance: Ronald Reagan and John Paul II | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...often the one who can afford to buy the most TV time. Proportional representation cuts two ways: it could keep a late starter from winning the lion's share of the delegates in California, New Jersey and other states, even though he might well have to do so to prevail. Most important, perhaps, late starters would face the insistent question: If the party needs you because only you can beat George Bush, why didn't you jump in at the start? The veiled -- or unveiled -- implication would be that the answer is political cowardice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Someone Else Leap In? | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...will endure and we will prevail. We won't prevail, though, if you all don't get going!" she said...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NARAL President Urges Women To Exercise Their Voting Powers | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...side of this female ideal is that while lips and breasts should be full, the rest of the body is inevitably too fat. The nearanorexic demands made on models and actresses are well known. What is less discussed, and more relevant for most of us, is that similar standards prevail in the ordinary career world...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Barbie Doll Hell | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

...command for dealing with people who tried to escape across the border, and in the eyes of Heinrich's supervisors his actions were not merely legal but commendable. Three years later, Heinrich, 27, lives in the same Berlin, but a different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically, the trial judge said, for following the laws of his country rather than asserting his conscience. Said Judge Theodor Seidel: "Not everything that is legal is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Price of Obedience | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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