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...same people who launched the 1988 Willie Horton spot that branded Michael Dukakis soft on crime but left George Bush open to charges of racism. Anxious not to be associated with such negative campaigning this time around, Bush quickly labeled the attacks on the Senators "counterproductive." Thomas pronounced them "vicious." His chief Senate supporter, Missouri Republican John Danforth, called them "sleazy" and "scurrilous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not-So-Hidden Persuaders | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Meanwhile, despite optimistic talk about upsurges and turnarounds and lights at the ends of various tunnels, the Bay State economic news remained bleak. Vicious layoffs continued at large corporations, small businesses, newspapers, agencies and schools. Days after laying off nearly half its teachers, the Town of Chelsea went into receivership...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Meanwhile, despite optimistic talk about upsurges and turnarounds and lights at the ends of various tunnels, the Bay State economic news remained bleak. Vicious layoffs continued at large corporations, small businesses, newspapers, agencies and schools. Days after laying off nearly half its teachers, the Town of Chelsea went into receivership...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...current jam, Tyson may plead that he was only doing what is expected of a top dog in a vicious sport. A fighter's business, which may also be his pleasure, is hurting people; because it is the public's pleasure too, he is paid for his work. It would be nice if this walking keg of testosterone believed that what he does is just a job, a dispassionate display of skill, and that his ferocious aggression is merely an attitude to be shucked along with his mouthpiece after the final bell. Nice, but not likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Tyson: Tragedy of An Ex-Champ | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

Reporters in Washington held their collective breath last week wondering who, if anyone, would perform the laundering service for the vicious story in a gay magazine claiming that a Pentagon official is homosexual. The Los Angeles-based Advocate tried to get publicity for itself by offering an advance copy of the piece to major news outlets that would agree to run it. Although the individual has not been antigay or hypocritical or done any of the other things gay groups use as excuses for "outing" people, Jack Anderson broke the story in his syndicated column, deciding that being first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Busybodies on the Bus | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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