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Much has been written, some of it bitingly critical, about the arcane ways of English public school education, but it has probably been a refuge for a boy for whom the limelight has become a laser. Wills has gone the conventional route, and that means he started boarding school at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES WILLS | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...take refuge in a brick church on the monastery grounds. As in Rwanda two years ago, the Hutu had a plan, recalls French Brother Victor Bordeau, 60, who had been hearing rumors of an attack for days: "First they would kill the Tutsi brothers, then attack the Tutsi refugees. Then drive the rest out of Zaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CONTAGION OF GENOCIDE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

But for longtime readers like Brown, the real sci-fi is "hard" sci-fi. It's the literary equivalent of a whiskey shot: bracing, no-nonsense extrapolation of today's science. And it's coming back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LITERATURE OF NERDS GOES MAINSTREAM | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is the champion of the geeks at Ben Franklin Junior High school in a New Jersey suburb--even the other nerds call her by her inevitable moniker "wiener dog." Home is no refuge for Dawn. Her mother (Angela Pietropinto), presumably the same woman who inflicts pink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hell Hath No Fury Like Junior High in New Jersey | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

The two met in 1968, when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM INVISIBILITY TO LIABILITY | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

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