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...however, recent polls show Simon with an impressive lead over the rest of the Democratic field in Iowa and trailing only favorite-stepson Michael Dukakis in New Hampshire...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: What Simon Says, and Doesn't | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

...week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other leg below the knee. The Navy claimed that the train was traveling at 5 m.p.h. and its civilian crew did not see the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protest: Blood on The Tracks | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Some will miss the puckishness of the old Bond; others may wilt during an overlong sequence set in the Afghan desert, when the movie turns Ishtary. But Glen, Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson (Broccoli's stepson, who serves as co- screenwriter and co-producer) have wrapped a few nifty surprises in the security blanket of genre familiarity. The gasbag KGB agent is smuggled out of Czechoslovakia through the Trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. A professional killer and a British guard stage the best kitchen fight since the gremlins got microwaved. The requisite ski chase sends Dalton and D'Abo bobsledding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bond Keeps Up His Silver Streak | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...Also, 14% of men and 8% of women ages 25 to 34 are dependent on their parents for housing, compared with 9.5% and 6.6% in 1970. "This is part of a major shift in the middle class," & declares Sociologist Allan Schnaiberg of Northwestern University. He should know: Schnaiberg's stepson, 19, moved back in after an absence of eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Show Me the Way to Go Home | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...parole for Hillery, mustering 480 signatures. Minter believes that if a fair trial finds Hillery guilty, he should go back to prison. "If you do the crime, you do the time," she says, with the air of someone who has thought about what the words mean: her own stepson is serving time in San Quentin for rape. But the proceedings must be fair, she argues. "There's racism here now, and there was racism back then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Seeing Justice Never Done | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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