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Why do Bush and Clinton, two very middle-of-the road candidates, sound like hard-line party ideologues on the issue of abortion? The unfortunate answer is that neither has the political courage to be a real moderate. Rather than being a measure of the strength of their convictions, the...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Position on Demand | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

With seven weeks left before the election, it is clear that neither Baker nor his boss is working miracles -- yet. Baker does deserve credit for making Bush focus on his biggest weakness and the voters' overriding concern: the Administration's handling of the economy. In an appearance before the Economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Miracles Yet | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

The Lions do boast a strong defense--Tellier calls it "the best in years"--which will match up well against the Crimson's weakness on the offensive line.

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IT'S SHOWTIME! | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Making Love is best read after Rhodes' A Hole in the World, a memoir of his mother's suicide, his stepmother's abuse and his father's weakness. The boy's loveless childhood now becomes the man's sexual void, an emptiness that can never be filled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grownup Show and Tell | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

In the face of political instability and disintegrating roads, airports and telephone networks, and other disincentives, investors from Europe, America and Japan are withdrawing from sub-Saharan Africa and looking elsewhere; Africans too are pulling out their money. Why risk expropriation or failure in a continent with a weakness for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: the Scramble for Survival | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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