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When you watch COPS, you see just how bad things are, day in, day out. No romanticism about the valiant police officer. None of this insipid morality playing like Rescue 911, TOP COPS or America's Most Wanted...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Back to Death, Back to Reality | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...hard to imagine many others being offended by the sappy sermonizing. Sunday Dinner doesn't engage the issue of religious faith so much as gawk at it: belief in God has become a character quirk, like having a funny job or being a witch. Lear has made a valiant effort to break one of TV comedy's last remaining taboos. But God has always been a better straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Comes to Dinner | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...scientists covet. What he forgot is that although humans may respect these things, the truth does not. What he lost sight of, in the smugness of success, is that truth is no respecter of hierarchy or fame. It can come out of the mouths of mere underlings, like the valiant O'Toole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Science, Lies and The Ultimate Truth | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...Willinger's Great Football Play Helps Cornell Snuff Harvard. Big Red Football Hero Fends Off Valiant Crimson Effort...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: It's Just a Game | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

...bloodshed, wars waste vast quantities of money -- which this government hasn't got. Just preparing the intervention to protect allegedly threatened Saudi Arabia is costing about $46 million a day (and has just about killed all hope of a post-cold war peace dividend). So far, the valiant resistance to higher oil prices has substantially increased the price of oil, and an actual war with Iraq would undoubtedly increase it a great deal more. The impending recession would deepen and spread around the world. So how is President Bush, who can't even keep the budget deficit much under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Case Against Going to War | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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