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Chief of Staff Mack McLarty did not want to disturb the 27 little pieces of torn yellow paper carefully assembled on the table. And so last Tuesday, as Attorney General Janet Reno entered his corner office for a meeting, he gingerly took his seat at the head of the table. The day before, the scraps had come fluttering out of the briefcase of Vincent Foster Jr. as it was being packed for his widow. They may contain all that will ever be known about his final thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shreds Of Evidence | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock-'N'-Roll Animal | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...performances by the supporting cast make the movie. Michelle Burke plays Connie perfectly as the prototypical first generation immigrant--torn between her parent's culture and the culture she is growing...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: One-Joke Celluloid Presentation Amusing | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

Another summer is upon us and with it come the sounds of the season; children splashing in backyard pools, the sizzling of burgers on the grill and the nation's social fabric being hopelessly torn by the two misnamed sides of the abortion debate...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Words Too Big for Movements | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...ANGELES -- Not everyone loves JURASSIC PARK. Parts of California's Red Rock Canyon State Park were torn up during filming; a park ecologist estimates that the filmmakers were responsible for $12,000 worth of damage to the park, only $9,000 of which has been paid for. "The Red Rock Canyon Park," a spokesperson for director Steven Spielberg's production company says, "was paid whatever they were to be paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Jul. 19, 1993 | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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