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...Greeks held so firmly to their past that we forget how far back they had to reach for it. It is easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that...
...said his goals included changes in the plot and soundtrack. For example, he said the script had suffered from the authors' preoccupation with technical aspects of the production. "We lost sight of what the basis of the show was," Weiner said, adding that he and Hanning hoped to put more emphasis on the relationship between the lead characters, Jon and Jane...
...that rosy projection, the Administration forecasts a deficit of $51.1 billion in 1992 and $23.3 billion in 1993. The President who campaigned on a promise that he would balance the budget by the end of his first term is now finishing his second term with that goal nowhere in sight...
...Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged too hard, hooked a gate and fell within sight of the finish...
...President who campaigned on a promise that he would wipe out the deficit by the end of his first term is now finishing his second term with that goal nowhere in sight. Why has he failed? The question prompted TIME' s Washington bureau to undertake an ambitious project: drafting its own long- term proposal for a balanced budget that would be feasible as well as fair...