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...They got CHILD ABUSE stamped on my file, and that is not true. I neglected my kids, I'll admit that, but I never abused them." Sitting in a cramped second-floor apartment in East San Diego carpeted with dirty laundry and food remnants, the single mother abruptly changes tack. "What if I go to jail? Who'll take care of my kids?" Davis breaks into Roper's panicked monologue. "I gotta think about this and make some calls, Diana. I'll get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASEWORKERS: MAKING THE TOUGH CALLS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A SCARLET FOR THE UNLETTERED | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...Tack and Field at Heptagonal Championships at Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

...after years of testing the mettle of that thesis (which includes her hoosier groupie years at Indiana University), Glock concluded that the reputation is indeed unwarranted. This realization led her on quite a different tack...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Poetry and Prose | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

Wary U.S. taxpayers need to know that the $570 million buys only a stripped-down version of the plane. Spare parts and additional engineering would tack on about $2 billion to the total bill. And some government bean counters regard even that proposed $13.5 billion price tag as too low an estimate. The Pentagon believes the final price for another 20 planes would approach $20 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concludes that each new B-2 could cost $1.3 billion, for a total of $26 billion. ``I don't know where Northrop is coming up with their numbers,'' says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FLYING BOONDOGGLE | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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