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After a few awkward encounters, things progress predictably. They make love (rather quickly, one notes with disappointment for Monica) and after a long, painful silence, Adrian tells Monica that he's a cross-dresser. The housewife giggles for a spell but soon enough she accepts Gerald for what he is--a straight man who enjoys cross-dressing...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: 'Just Like a Woman' is Just a Drag | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...might have less to do with Massieu's No. 2 role in the PRI than his tenure as governor of the province where the young suspect lives. Said one speculator: "Two assassinations do not conform a social tendency, but evidently Colosio's killing seemed to break a kind of spell." Massieu's death is a setback for Mexican political change, since he was considered one of the lead reformers within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO . . . ANOTHER LEADER ASSASSINATED | 9/28/1994 | See Source »

...there are more or less two voices in the editorial dialogue--the fanatically conservative and the self-righteously liberal. If you plan to be the former, make sure you live up to the titles homophobe, fundamentalist and sexist. If you plan to be the latter, make sure you can spell and pronounce the words homophobe, fundamentalist and sexist; these will most likely constitute a good part of your vocabulary...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Think Again | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...ought to be poring over the Pentagon's classified reports detailing what went wrong in Somalia. When the last U.S. official and his 59 Marine bodyguards leave Mogadishu this week, the U.S. will be abandoning a failed investment of $1.3 billion and 44 American lives. Two still secret postmortems spell out how the humane mission to feed starving Somalis degenerated into a guerrilla war that has left the country little better off than it was before the U.S. intervened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: The Past As Prelude | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...intended to intimidate Haiti's leaders, it is also meant to prepare the two groups Clinton must enlist before sending U.S. troops into battle: Congress and the American people. To convince the country that returning Aristide to power is worth spilling American blood, advisers told Clinton he needs to spell out the U.S. vital interests at stake, preferably in a TV speech this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: This Time We Mean Business | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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