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Reeves questioned the project's chances for success, citing what he described as its "bureaucratic" nature and criticizing it for "trying to reinvent the wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Officials Debate School Policy | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...least bit embarrassment: "Had so many lovers / Who settled for the thrill / Of basking in my spotlight / I never felt / So happy." The song ends with a rejection of all the Material Girl once held dear "No handsome stranger, heady danger / Drug that I can try / No ferris wheel, no heart to steal / No laughter in the dark / No one night stand, no far off land / No fire that I can spark." The ending of the song is irresistibly cryptic: "And now, I find / I've changed my mind." And then you hear her final whisper, "This is my religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madonna's Newest CD Surprisingly Confessional | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...deifying him but making him look very respectable. It began to worry the hell out of me. I did not see how TIME could put this picture on the cover without conveying some kind of tacit endorsement. In December, I stumbled on a fine lithograph of a Catherine wheel with naked bodies hanging from it, and down in one corner a little man playing a hymn of hate on an organ, and the man was Hitler. By the time I found it, Harry was away, and I was running the shop. The editors of TIME fell into violent disagreement over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair: Witness: Ralph Ingersoll | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...escape it all. Kids squeal as they ride high on the Ferris wheel at the Luna Park fun fair, while their parents chat and stroll. At 10 a.m., boats blaring disco music ply the filthy Tigris River; for a few hours, Iraq's youth can try to forget their current misery and fearful future as they rock to the beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crises: Parade Of The Dead Babies | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...

Author: By Fredo Arias-king, | Title: Czech-Mate | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

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