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This speech foreshadowed the current Age of Apology, as public remorse has become the refuge of middle-aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAMA MIA, THAT'S A MEA CULPA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Miracles did happen. In Jarrell, Jim Davidson was surveying his flattened home with a sick heart, searching for some sign of his family, when he saw his wife Virginia a few hundred feet up the street. She had taken refuge in the bathtub, been carried through the air and landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Gen X, says Werbach, responds to aggressively hip, visual and interactive messages. Want to fight oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge? Set up booths to sell black snow cones. Want to protest the G.O.P.'s eco-bashing? Hang Newt Gingrich pinatas, provide a bat and whack for candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE CAN SIT HERE BEMOANING BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD OR WE CAN LEARN FROM THEIR APPEAL. | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo: After airlifting about 100 foreign residents over the weekend to nearby Kinshasa, Congo, the U.S. Embassy is desperately trying to negotiate a cease-fire so that some two dozen American citizens holed up in the embassy compound can reach the airport and flights out. The evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French and Americans Flee Brazzaville | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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