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After nine brilliant years in office, during which he won plaudits as cheerleader-in-chief of this rusted industrial city on the Passaic River, James could be headed for a crash landing. The former high school track star, politically surefooted for 20 years, is trying to outrun an intensifying federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUNNER STUMBLES | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

The great challenge for the Democrats, still reeling from their drubbing at the polls, is to keep their footing as the G.O.P. pulls the rug out from under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Revolution | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Cohen is not one of those artists he characterizes in the title track as "lousy little poets/ Coming round/ Trying to sound like Charlie Manson." He knows how to be vulnerable as well as play at it. His love songs twist the heart around like fingers knotting a string. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting On A New Train | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

All this activity did nothing to dispel the impression that the President, relatively surefooted in foreign affairs, has no clear ideas for solving homegrown problems. Sununu did not help matters by his autocratic, high- profile style, and in recent weeks he found himself embroiled in several public spats that did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Clearing the Decks | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Coetzee is at his most surefooted when he crisply narrates events, letting the horror speak for itself. Too often, however, he seems not to trust the reader, stating and restating his distress. The story is also gilded with tedious descriptions of Mrs. Curren's longing for her daughter, which rely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malignancies | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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