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...presuming his innocence. Anchors are thrown together with people they are not used to working with -- at times it looks as though Peter Jennings would like to stuff a sock in the mouth of Leslie Abramson, who defended one of the Menendez brothers. The anchors all seem to resent being pressed into service during soap-opera time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: One Life to Live | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...about suicide, but she did not respond to counseling and refused medication. Having already made an attempt to kill herself by overdosing on drugs, she thought about other methods. "Rope only offers a 70% chance of success,"she worried."I do not know about the train. And I would resent it-- the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing The Psychic Pain | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Many heterosexuals resent any perceived invitation to "condone" or "endorse" gay behavior. They would rather not know -- or, in the words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...initiative, but he was gathering backers late Tuesday. Only Senegal pledged to send troops to join the French, while the Foreign Minister of Italy--the only European power to consider the proposition--warned that white troops would be "torn to shreds alive" by black Rwandan rebels, who would resent "an act of neocolonialism." TIME Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis fears the French plan could be disastrous, saving some lives now but endangering thousands later. At greatest risk: U.N. troops in Kigali, where fighting is fierce; and relief workers, many of whom are French, who now fear

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . FRANCE HITS THE BORDER, AND ALLIES WORRY | 6/21/1994 | See Source »

Requiring courses might make students resent what they learn though they may appreciate it later, one English professor says...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Is the Canon Dead? | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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