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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange irony if the sociopath Saddam outlasts Bush, who attempted to sketch the outlines of a new world order in defeating him. That new world will present future Presidents with more dilemmas like prewar Iraq -- Syria and China are current examples -- where the moral costs of engaging with a thuggish regime must be weighed against the practical chances of coaxing it into the concert of nations -- and making a buck in the meantime. Bush's Iraq policy is not a perfect model for future action, but neither is it a perfect example of what to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Iraq | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard Nixon. But when Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Seriously, Folks . . . | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Nowhere across la Cosa Nostra is there a leader with the clout and thuggish charisma of John Gotti. Following the verdict, Gotti's distraught daughter, Vicki Agnelli, hurled an angry comment at reporters: "My father is the last of the Mohicans. They don't make men like him anymore. They never will." Law- enforcement officials surely hope she is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: Wanted: A New Godfather | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

BREAKING LEGS. Three thuggish mobsters finance a play about the criminal mind by a college professor, who grasps with mounting horror what he has got into, in this unsubtle but engaging off-Broadway hit that is re-signing stars Vincent Gardenia and Philip Bosco and engendering plans for a national tour and possible movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 7, 1991 | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...scenes suggested a forward outpost of civilization girding itself for an impending attack by barbarians -- and such an impression would not be far from the truth. Early last week, without warning, a squad of thuggish special forces from the Soviet Interior Ministry, known as black berets, attacked the Latvian Interior Ministry. In a 30-min. exchange of machine-gun and rifle fire, they killed two Latvian militiamen, a well-known filmmaker and a bystander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Edge of Darkness | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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