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"I am terribly sorry," said Hitler, "but that no longer suits me." The German leader seemed determined to humiliate the Czechs and expose the weakness of the British and French. He no longer wanted a plebiscite. The Czechs would simply have to hand over the Sudetenland by Oct. 1, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part 2 Road to War | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Government reports last week revealed new signs of economic weakness, prompting worries that the current slowdown could turn into a full-fledged recession. Although the Labor Department said on Friday that the U.S. unemployment rate dipped slightly, from 5.3% in June to 5.2% in July, the Government's Index of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LBOS: Let's Bail Out | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

In contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

It has been almost a given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring global Communism in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn. American politicians and statesmen have understood as much, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: Defiance | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

If physical weakness has not prevented women from becoming bona fide chefs, what about their alleged lack of creativity? Judging by the menus of prominent women chefs around the U.S., pure tradition has gone the way of hand-rolled dough. For though most draw upon certain ethnic and regional influences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: When Women Man the Stockpots | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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