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But to succeed, Clinton must stick to his vision. The principal reason his ambitions for health care and crime met such resistance is that what started out as grand schemes to allay middle-class anxieties were increasingly seen as yet more remedial programs for the poor. Working people don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Beach and the Decline of Liberalism | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Hollywood in the '30s and '40s is the novel's principal setting, though the ramified and exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hollywood Babble-On | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Ego inspires the off-season trophy hunters to employ off-season guides. "We've busted folks who have hired guides and said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

Dante II is the brainchild of Bares and William ("Red") Whittaker, the principal research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab and a legend among robot designers. Whittaker helped design the machine that cleaned up the Three Mile Island reactor after its near meltdown in 1979, and he oversaw development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dante Tours the Inferno | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

Federal investigators said a weekend fire that totaled Alabama's racially troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN ALABAMA IT'S ARSON . . . AND A SUIT | 8/10/1994 | See Source »

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