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The convention also illustrated -- though far offstage -- Hillary Clinton's role as something close to a co-campaign manager for her husband. While she is not in charge of anything specific, she gets in on many decisions, frequently helping to cut through confusion and bring rambling discussions to a focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: The Long Road | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Society was also growing more complex in Mexico and Central America, but it was at its most elaborate in parts of South America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

But that's not the reality. And poor children in run-down schools are left in the crossfire. They not only have to be lucky enough to get a lottery number high enough to escape a poor school. They also have to be lucky enough to have a parent savvy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bludgeoning Schools | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

But this year, after countless breast-beating symposiums and innumerable studies about fairness, millions of Americans remain passionately resentful of what they consider a marked liberal bias. While few reporters will acknowledge the facts publicly, it is widely admitted in private that many journalists covering Bill Clinton feel generational affinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are The Media Too Liberal? | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

At the beginning, no one had the upper hand, and each reasoned that a credible loss was the ticket to a more realistic chance next time. Clinton, the eventual winner, was hobbled by character flaws of his own making, and fumbled responses to even the easiest inquiries when his foibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Clinton's to Lose | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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