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Stewart and Tucci stayed at Rangoon's stately turn-of-the-century Strand Hotel, which was taken over by its workers after the turmoil began last month. The pair got to know the entire staff quickly: they were the only guests, the usual trickle of foreign tourists having vanished. Both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Sep. 26, 1988 | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

But the efforts to impugn Dukakis' patriotism are part of a larger, time- tested Republican theme: to portray the Democrats as the inheritors of intellectual doubt and malaise, the party that is soft on defense, that perceives America as being on a long, slow decline. The Republicans, by contrast, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Pledge | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

He grew up in a voluble and protected community of strivers, where competition was prized and turned into social contribution. Brookline, embedded in Boston, has always considered itself better than Boston. A Revolutionary village, it had become so affluent in the 19th century that it was the first suburb in...

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

At the state house, she has an office down the hall from the Governor's, and has been known to stride into a meeting unannounced and question her husband on some pet project while slightly startled state legislators look on. She can be imperious with others, and is quite exacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitty Provides the Passion | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Congress also faces an election year and seems ready to embark on the greatest frenzy of antidrug votes since the last election year, 1986. The Senate unanimously approved an amendment to the annual budget resolution that would provide for a $2.6 billion expansion of the Government's antidrug | efforts. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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