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...Renault sedan scurries across the Miljacka River on the little bridge where Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. A brainless loop of history: the 20th century, after all its adventures, has arrived back in Sarajevo again, working on blood feuds and apocalypses. Lessons learned: possibly none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ruin of a Cat, the Ghost of a Dog | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...vote had been cast, but Clinton was already being hailed as the Democrat to beat. Dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt and with a University of Arkansas baseball cap tilted back on a head of hair considerably less gray than it is today, Clinton wheeled his state-owned sedan around town and laughed at the presumption of comparing himself to Lincoln. "Yet, you know," he said, "if you think about it, that description kind of gets at me some, don't you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Will Do | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Following the Saturn example, the Oldsmobile division plans to produce some new models that will bear no mention of the Olds name or its rocket logo. The first will be Aurora, a full-size sedan that will go on sale in 1994. While GM may continue to de-emphasize the Oldsmobile nameplate, the company has no plans to shut down the division entirely, contrary to rumors that it might do so. In its new guise, Olds plans to concentrate on midsize cars to compete with the likes of the Ford Taurus and Toyota Camry, giving up most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cowboy Driving Oldsmobile | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...came less from new product than from continuing cost-cutting programs and reductions in rebates and discounted fleet sales. Even so, there were encouraging signs that both companies might extend their winning streak. Ford's conservatively restyled Taurus has come up a winner in the high-volume midsize-sedan market and is steadily gaining on Honda's Accord as the nation's best-selling car. Chrysler has nothing but new products to come, including its own line of sleek midsize LH sedans to be introduced this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling Back Into the Black Ford and Chrysler make some money for a change | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Spectacular accidents are so common along Moscow's broad avenues, where drivers weave through multiple lanes at high speed, that they rarely merit public attention. But when a private car forced a speeding government Volga sedan into oncoming traffic last week, causing the Volga to sideswipe another car, somersault across four lanes and knock down a tree, some Russian officials called the crash an assassination attempt. Why? The Volga carried Sergei Shakhrai, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and President Boris Yeltsin's top lawyer in a court case that will decide the fate of the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attempted Murder? | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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