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Roosevelt, however, is less proud of hispersonality during his Harvard years. "I was veryself-righteous, overly critical of other people,"he says. "I probably still...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Roosevelt Launched His Career In College | 4/13/1994 | See Source »

...Wallenberg saved over 50,000 Jews during his time in Hungary. His name, like that of Oscar Schindler, is on the Avenue of the Righteous in Jerusalem...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Another Hero | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Offense comes easily to the self-righteous. And this is an Administration bursting with self-righteousness. The conceit of Clinton's politics is that he and his wife have come with the virtue -- "idealism," it was called then -- of the '60s to redeem us from the "corrupt do-nothing values of the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Whitewater Matters | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

Higginbotham's first book, Righteous Discontent, focuses on the women's movement in the Black Baptist church...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: Higginbotham Fills Double Role | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Take Two Tabloids and Call Me | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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