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For loners, a motel offers cheap, hassle-free comfort. Jerald Doherty, 39, moved to the Desert Inn a year ago, after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEARTBREAK MOTEL | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

America is, after all, not a movie that started an hour ago. The ragged threads go back to the beginning, the violent underweave of the story. Visit 1886, say, during the birth of American organized labor: Chicago, Haymarket Square, riots, a bomb, seven cops dead. There is such a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAD OLD DAYS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

Many who know the Nichols brothers, who grew up not far away in Lapeer, insist that they cannot be connected with the bombing. "I just can't believe they could have done something like this,'' says Mike Innes, 35, a dairy farmer who buys feed from Nichols and lives only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

In a two-years, Brown has run Harvard and the rest of Collegiate crew ragged . Brown handed Harvard each of its dual-meet losses in the 1993 and 1994 seasons. And, the Bears won everything in sight last season--capturing a perfect dualmeet record, Eastern Sprints, the National Championship and...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Trounces Brown in Upset | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

The set also raises a few questions: the cacti suggest a Western desert, the Confederate flag suggests the South, and the ragged lawn chairs evoke a tornado-belt trailer park. The characters, perhaps, would be most at home in California, where the exploitative photographer and the body-obsessed model are...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Risky `Motel Blues' Speaks (Often Silently) of Ire | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

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