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...Their natural function is to reinforce habits that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Politics Made Me Do It | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Fortunately, not all luck was lost--a station wagon taxi had passed by the group several times during the hour and the group finally decided to flag it down

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Shuttle Service Delays Cause Student Ire | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...ground war had begun only hours earlier, but Colbert had a woman on his mind. His date for the night lived in a Philadelphia neighborhood known for its crime and poverty, and Colbert couldn't find her house. Then he got lucky--or so he thought. A police wagon was idling down the block, and Colbert got out of his dark blue 1985 Toyota Camry to ask directions. Inside the police van were two uniformed cops, a lean, square-jawed officer with longish yellow hair--known and feared on the streets as Blondie--and a short, dark-haired officer named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...Colbert, 24, approached the wagon that night, Blondie and Ryan emerged to greet him. "What are you doing here, nigger?" Colbert recalls one of the cops saying. As Colbert explained his predicament, the officers patted him down and searched his car. "What are you doing?" asked Colbert, who knew the law. "What's your probable cause to search me?" Neither officer responded. "I remember thinking that I was indeed in a bad neighborhood," Colbert says. "The cops have it rough in the real world. They never know if you're a bad guy, so I figured I could take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...case conviction hit in Karachi, Pakistan, where four American auditors were shot to death, along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICA THE VULNERABLE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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