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Sajak and Hall will compete against each other in many cities, but their main target is that unyielding edifice of late night, the Tonight show, starring Johnny Carson. The mission might seem suicidal. A gaggle of talk hosts, from Joey Bishop to Alan Thicke, have emerged over the years to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Nice-Guy Talk Hosts | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir denounced Arafat's U.N. address as a "monumental act of deception" and called the U.S. decision a dangerous "blunder" that "will not help us, not help the United States and not help the peace process." Even Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister who has struggled to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough : After 13 years of silence, the U.S. agrees to talk with the P.L.O. | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the greatest failing of the current system is that it magnifies the power of ideological true believers in both parties. It can be argued that Bush as the heir to Reagan may have in any case embraced the President's read- my-lips gospel on taxes, but the unyielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It Was So Sour | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

History lessons seemed simple as we walked along the Freedom Trail. First there were the Founders, John Winthrop with his vision of Boston as a "shining city upon a hill," the Mathers--Cotton and Increase--with their harsh, unyielding Puritan zeal, Anne Hutchinson, who was banned for her enlightenment.

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: `One If By Land, Two If By Sea' | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

Given his record, his friends should not have been surprised at his dramatic rectitude when he took office as Governor in 1974. He had schemed with them when they were fighting the entrenched powers -- who were bad men, after all, and had to be treated with some of their own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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