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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women lie, cheat and steal," she added...

Author: By Allyson V. Hobbs, | Title: Novelist Atwood Visits City Library | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...Reagan age, can he be called an extremist.He harps on liberal straw men in a way that seems more properly circa-1973 ("long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking peace pansies"), and his logic can be unforgivably specious (against the pro-choice argument for abortion:"Can a woman choose to steal, using her own body?"). But in fact his views on abortion are relatively nuanced. Nor is it kooky or even wrong to assert, as Limbaugh has, that the risk of heterosexual AIDS and estimates of the homeless population have been exaggerated for political reasons, that increased school expenditures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...selfishness -- the two traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Fly Away | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...SOMALIA, SAYS ANA LIRIA Franch, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Angola, "the country's strong are eating its weak." In Malanje government employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola: The Forgotten War | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Another Harvard student, who wishes to remain anonymous, admits to stealing a stop sign from his home town and hanging it on his wall. When asked what compelled him to steal it, he responds, "I have no idea...

Author: By Laurie A. Sheflin, | Title: Signs Offer Alternative To Posters, Paintings | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

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