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Dates: during 1990-1999
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-- Compared with playing a sport, being a fan is a no-lose proposition. Cheer at all of Chelsea's games, patronize presidential boxes, and visit the locker rooms after events like the World Series. Don't be cowed by the Secret Service. Like all bureaucracies, it has perpetuated itself all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sure, Reviving the Economy and Bringing Peace to The | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

The first to arrive, aside from those few close friends deemed worthy enough to be honored with the first cups of beer foam, were members of the Varsity (insert your least favorite sport here) Team, who casually finished off half of the first keg and proceeded to scrawl obscure epithets...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Endpaper | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

The magnitude and growth trend of our national debt are truly frightening. Over the past 12 years our country's level of indebtedness has increased from $1 trillion to $4 trillion. Much more disturbing is the fact that our total debt as a proportion of gross national product has increased...

Author: By Allen P. Webb, | Title: Lead...Or Leave, Bill | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

As she flies into Washington for the Inauguration, having studied closely the biographies of past First Ladies for guidance, Hillary Clinton may vow not to go to Cabinet meetings and take notes, declare a tablecloth crisis or order up a set of gold-rimmed china. She may carefully find a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: A Different Kind of First Lady | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Research suggests that by the age of 18, a child has watched 10 to 15,000 hours of television, and over 200,000 commercials. How much of this television consists of cartoon/advertisements and other junk TV is unclear, but a quick glance at a given day's programming suggests that...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: A Smurfy Law | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

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