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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such reasoning may at first seem counterintuitive. In a nation whose public philosophy resonates with rhetoric of revolution, defiance of authority is taken as prima facie evidence of a political action. Yet as political scientist Sheldon Wolin reminds us, the proper province of the political is the shared regulation of our common life--not the willy-nilly pursuit of private passions and interests. Generation X cannot redeem its shameful record of political apathy with concerts and parties...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: The Conservatism of Frivolity | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...other museums watched with interest, on Sept. 16 Denver auctioned off 1,500 items--to the glee of bargain hunters and the dismay of some descendants of the museum's benefactors. Says George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska: "What Denver has done is quite new and very bold." And lucrative. The auction raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSEUMS: WHITE ELEPHANT PARADE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...deeply involved in a mysterious way. It's deeply mysterious," said Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon A. Glashow, who has won a slightly less "Ig" Nobel Prize in Physics. "I'll try to get excited next week...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Ig Nobel Tickets Go on Sale | 9/29/1995 | See Source »

...among movement conservatives, implied last month that Burke's brand of "militant feminism is the heart of the welfare problem." And, of course, comparisons with the pre-eminent woman of influence in Washington are inevitable: "If the American people like Hillary Clinton, they will love Sheila Burke," said Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRING ME THE HEAD OF SHEILA BURKE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

Other social scientists were incredulous. "Her work contradicted everything that had come before," says Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan. As experts scratched their head, most politicians salivated. O'Neill had confirmed a "silver bullet" solution to a vexing social problem. Only New Jersey's Republican Governor, Christine Whitman, courageously refused to endorse O'Neill's conclusions, preferring to wait for the results of a larger and more objective investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MYTH ABOUT WELFARE MOMS | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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