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...waitress. She so nice. I ask her where she from. She say she jus' lef' Columbia University. Don' know her name, mais tres gentille. We tip her big. She work hard...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...tip was vague: check out a mansion 20 miles outside Medellin, the hub of the country's cocaine industry. At daybreak a 20-man elite police unit moved in. When the gunfight ended almost half an hour later, all 15 people inside the house were under arrest. But it was only when police demanded the papers of the captives that they realized they had cornered one of Colombia's most powerful and dangerous cocaine drug lords. Exclaimed Police Major William Lesmes: "We've caught him! This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: The Fall of a Cocaine Kingpin | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...doing absolutely the right thing with my life. That takes all the fun out of it. Telling me I'm being smart or thoughtful makes me want to puke--or, worse, go into investment banking. It makes me want to work 22 hour days and wear wing-tip shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...interactive toys tick? That is top-secret information these days. Manufacturers have shrouded their new toys in a haze of high-tech mystery, partly to preserve the sense of wonder about the devices, but also to prevent rivals from making knockoffs. While the technology is nothing that will tip the balance between superpowers, each toy company has developed a creative scheme for linking the toys with TV shows via light beams or audio signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Playland, Secrets 'R Us | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...year ago, certain that he would be elected to succeed Tip O'Neill as Speaker, Wright met with network officials, who agreed that a live response would be more newsworthy than a pretaped show. Although it was the turn of House Democrats to give the response, Wright decided that inviting Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd to join him would show that Democrats in both chambers are determined to work in tandem now that they control all of Capitol Hill. Twice last month the two met in Byrd's ornate office to outline what they would say. Each leader drafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Live Opposition | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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