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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, if Rowan merely had reflected on his own past positions, he would have recognized that his recent action points not to the weakness of the case for gun control, but rather to its validity. For once again, the mere presence of a gun can lead not just a hot...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: The Case Rowan Forgot to Make | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

Prosecutors, however, tend to see elaborate fabrications as proof that the women are rational. Declares District Attorney Ray Gricar, who handled the Comitz case: "Obviously, Sharon was depressed and 'lost it,' but there's no way she was out of her mind. She had to know exactly what she was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Mothers Kill Their Babies | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Hideki Gondo (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is her dark double, a crippled, spidery man whose vast real estate portfolio includes a chain of notorious hot-sheet hotels. Gondo's outward manner vividly contrasts with Ryoko's. He too has a childish air about him, but it is the air of a spoiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Driven by Uncontrollable Passions A TAXING WOMAN | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

The Reagans' enthusiasm for astrology comes as a small, slightly goofy revelation, an old Hollywood side of them that has turned up in Washington, a detail endearing and unbidden and embarrassing. Ronald Reagan has always been a lucky man. Perhaps he and his wife find that the zodiac is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Five-and-Dime Charms of Astrology | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

It is not just the responsibility of the professional community to speak out against all of Reagan's idiocies, including the apathy and mysticism now sapping our country's strength. Nor is it simply the duty of the media to carry this message, though they have so far failed in...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Reagan's Starry-Eyed Idealism | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

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