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...Charren says, she is passing the torch to the communities. "It's up to the communities to talk back to the stations...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Kid's Television Group Disbands | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

...president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went." But above all, Johnson wanted his Great Society, not a mess in Indochina. As Halberstam, hardly a Johnson apologist, explains it, "[h]e intended to secure the Kennedy legacy, prove his own worthiness to accept the torch by pushing the Kennedy legislation through Congress" and then move on to his own agenda. But "[a]ll that would take time, and for a start he wanted to hold the world at bay; he did not need any additional and extraneous problems from the world, and particularly not from Vietnam." Stone makes...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...flag burning, he first opposed the Supreme Court's sensible 1989 ruling which upheld the right to torch Old Glory (another purely political decision, which played well in Lincoln), and then supported it. Why? Chief Justice William Rehnquist pissed him off when he wrote in his dissent that people during the Vietnam War were defending the flag. Kerrey said he personally was not, and that he had therefore decided that the court was right--the flag was just a symbol...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: All Style and No Substance | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...night began with the entrance of a pink-clad ballerina scattering confetti. Various Ig Nobel dignitaries followed, holding placards proclaiming, "Save the Rat," "Recovering Mathematician," and "The 2nd Point of Light." The dignitaries paid homage to the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and watched the Sacred Torch Bearer enter and disappear...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Ig Nobelity Takes Over at MIT | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

Cocaine's toxic classification actually dates back to 1989, but state health officials did not publicize it, and law-enforcement agencies continued to torch what they seized. But incinerator operators, alerted by word of mouth and recent news articles on the ruling, have decided to "just say no" to further shipments. Meanwhile, tons of confiscated cocaine are piling up across the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War on Drugs: All Stacked Up, No Place to Go: All Stacked Up, No Place to Go | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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