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...reckoning is at hand. Now comes the true test of Republican resolution: Will the Republicans put the money where their mouth is? Will they make the real changes necessary to ensure a brighter future? Or will they allow cowardice and expediency to let this opportunity for fundamental change slip away? We will know soon enough. There is a consensus growing among members of both parties that one of the key elements on the road to a real and lasting solution to the problem of the budget deficit is an attack on welfare. Not the welfare that is normally attacked under...

Author: By Andrei H. Cerny, | Title: The Senate and the Fury | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

Fleck has produced an album that is honestly original and revolutionary. "Tales from the Acoustic Planet" cannot be described adequately in the usual musical vocabulary. To do it justice, slip on your shoes and pick it up at your trusty, neighborhood record store. Maybe you can take the old basset hounds along. He needs to get out more often anyway...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Fleck Tells Extraordinary Banjo `Tales' | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...Jamie Ames, I leave a goalie's lacrosse stick, so that all he can do is pass--to increase his assist output (he just scores too many goals!) I also leave a Boston Blazers jersey, so that one night he can slip into the lineup and show the professional lacrosse league just what...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Parting Gifts | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...kidney stone, only to have doctors find that it had disappeared: he credits a prayer wheel of more than 3,000 people that his wife, a Charismatic, organized. Leslie Smith recalls hurtling down a steep hill on her bike when she was seven years old. She began to slip off the seat--and felt hands lift her back up onto the bike. Dorothy Pederson, the most skeptical in the room, believes a miracle saved her husband's life after a brutal mugging in a hotel room seven years ago. John Lashley has had six strokes and two heart attacks. Twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MESSAGE OF MIRACLES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...less resistance. The Dominican Republic's seven busy international airports and minimal visa restrictions make it difficult to monitor the comings and goings of foreigners. And once refugees weather the 110-mile boat trip from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, they can usually slip onto a U.S.-bound flight without a document check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGEROUS TIDES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

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