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...take precautions. Meteorologists, concerned with the unseasonably high dew points (it has been a bumper wild-flower season) were broadcasting warnings. Tornado sirens went off at 3:55 p.m., 10 minutes before the winds hit. But for those in the path of this twister, all that knowledge was in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...author of the riveting true-crime tale Missing Beauty. So while Without a Doubt has little to offer for the history books, it is well written, sometimes moving and occasionally amusing. At one point, Judge Lance Ito is compared with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now: "increasingly cryptic and vain." And the anecdotes about fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden reveal a sweet rapport and a complex relationship. (As for the $64,000 question, Clark writes, tough-guy style, "The question is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, Chris Darden and I were closer than lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CLOSING ARGUMENT? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...that students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are a bit temporally confused. Believing it to be the year 1967, a group of over 100 students are currently engaged in a sit-in. Unfortunately, there is no unjust war to decry, and these passionate activists are acting in vain. They have proclaimed their goal to be to "stop the discrimination at this University of students of color as well as poor and working people." It is entirely unclear how such discrimination manifests itself (but that seems to be a technicality...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: SILENT PROTEST | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

...nation arrives by the carload, hoping that Shanghai will be the land of plenty. Ran Yigang, a scruffy 23-year-old with the thick hands of a farm laborer, got off the train last week from Anhui, one of the poorest provinces. All day he searched in vain for construction work, then collapsed on a bag of clothing in front of the station. He considered whether to take a room for $2.50, a price he considers usurious, or hop a train in search of work elsewhere. "I wonder how people here get so rich," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENG XIAOPING SET OFF SEISMIC CHANGES IN HIS COUNTRY. . . | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...take place, Lensky dances alone in his agony over what is to come. Armand has an incredibly expressive face, and Lensky's solo ends with him lying on the ground in his misery. Tatiana and Olga arrive to try to persuade the two friends not to fight, but in vain; and in the duel, Onegin kills Lensky. Olga crumples to the ground as her sister grieves, and Onegin, finally struck by remorse, staggers emotionally across the stage as the curtain falls...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: escape from social RHYME or REASON | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

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