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...should TIME react to such a richness of events? The magazine's answer: a "bonus" for TIME'S readers of up to 100 color-filled extra pages of editorial content specifically directed to 1984's very special demands. With these additional capabilities, which will cost nearly $2 million, TIME will be taking an unprecedented step toward giving its readers the dramatic detail and pictorial splendor that are a vital part of the events that define our interests and shape our times. TIME'S new bonus approach to big news will be used for two Winter Olympics...
...crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion of the issues, however, judgments about character and temperament are essential in choosing a President...
THOSE WHO hold fast to their ideals, who cannot but take themselves seriously, react to conservative Washington by kicking and screaming--by marching and writing and knocking their heads against walls. But the New Right has done its greatest damage in the rest of liberal America. It has stomped all over ideals and beliefs turning an army of believers into a generation of cynics. And while there are those who still carry globes and organize proves the vast majority wants only to laugh. A little humor never hurt anyone...
Long report charged that the entire chain of command had failed to react to the fact that "in the eyes of the factional militias, [the Marines] had become pro-Israel, pro-Phalange and anti-Muslim-and therefore prime targets for terrorist attack." Incredibly, according to the report, Marine Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of U.S. forces ashore in Lebanon, did not believe that his troops had authority to shoot at a civilian vehicle, even if it seemed bent on crashing into the Marine compound. This passivity is all the more astonishing given the fact that a truck bomb had destroyed much...
...York City Transit Authority for negligence. Broder acknowledged that Stephens had put himself at risk by jumping, but he was prepared to try to prove that the motorman had been negligently slow in stopping. "He certainly didn't do this intentionally," says Broder, "but sometimes people do not react quickly enough...