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This fantasy--that such an exemplary figure could actually get elected in modern America--is actually wilder than the story Air Force One is telling. It concerns demented terrorists who somehow insinuate themselves onto the presidential plane and take the Chief Executive and everyone else aboard hostage. Their offer is lives for a life--specifically that of a genocidal tyrant named General Radek, president of a breakaway Russian republic now being held in a Moscow jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE ULTIMATE HIJACK | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away for motorists traveling the nearby interstate to view it. In hindsight, though, one can only wonder whether the sign is intended for that small population of train jumpers who somehow make Flint a destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TRAIN HOP TO TRAGEDY | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...third, giving up a run, and again in the fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference on the mound that had shortstop Derek Jeter laughing. "Everybody was trying to tell him something," Jeter said. Irabu somehow got the message--and the next batter to ground out. He breezed through the sixth and had two outs with nobody on in the seventh when Torre brought in a reliever so that Irabu could walk off to a standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...only half-joking. Witherup, vice president for international sales and marketing at the Conair Group, a manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry, was a recent college graduate in 1967. Back then he already suspected that plastics was an "exciting" field--an impression that seeing The Graduate somehow confirmed for him despite the fact that this is precisely what the film wasn't saying about plastics. It is almost as if one were inspired to smuggle hash from Turkey after seeing Midnight Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST ONE WORD | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear to me, but to begin with, liberals must combine a vehement attention to rights with a circumspect view of the needs of civil society. Our unyielding emphasis on individual freedom must somehow come to terms with responsiblities, or we may not make it to the next dawn's early light...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Importance of a Simple Holiday | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

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