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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Let's not be native--people our age tend to be kind of horny. Thanks in no small part to the Sexual Revolution, it's easier than in times past for two people to meet in a bar, sweet-talk, over a few beers and go home together. Conceptions of...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Whining and Dining Your Date | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

Their treatment of Bush's diplomacy is particularly problematic. While the authors conclude that Bush "made an indispensable contribution to the cold war's end," their story suggests quite another, more controversial, conclusion. Beschloss and Talbott portray Bush as an unreflective status quo conservative who found himself extremely uncomfortable with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comrades Of History | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

"Marquis" focuses on the aforementioned dog-marquis, who is imprisoned in the Bastille. Just prior to the 1789 revolution, a conspiracy is launched to liberate a jailed bourgeois leader. The marquis is asked to aid his fellow prisoner's escape by "distracting" their lascivious jailer. This prompts one of several...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Sadomasochistic Fleas Do It | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

At the end of my year with Justice Marshall, a year in which he found himself on the losing side of many of the cases that meant the most to him, particularly those involving capital punishment, I asked whether he felt discouraged by the court's increasingly conservative tilt. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man: THURGOOD MARSHALL | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Call it Generation X (from Douglas Coupland's novel of the same name), the MTV Generation, even the Lego Generation...whatever you want. Clinton wants the votes regardless. Reagan kicked off a Republican revolution in 1980 by winning over the young. Now, Clinton has to be thinking, it's his...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Allure of Youth Politics | 2/5/1993 | See Source »

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