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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There kids absorb the values of peers and find a niche in the local ecology. They become known as tough or nice or wacky or wicked, and personality starts to harden. Granted, parents can shape behavior within the home. But in the wider world, Harris argues, the child is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Their Peers | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Doubtless Redford believes in the ideals that animate this movie--as who among us does not? But the very fact that he is so well known and widely applauded for his many good, politically and artistically correct works offscreen helps make the movie seem self-regarding, self-righteous, even smug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ain't What He Used To Be | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

You say, "Jesus, I don't get it. I swear I see nothin' but the prosperity of the wicked." Let's kick it so you can see the end that's predicted, When...sinful men get evicted... But God the Son is gonna rise like a biscuit, Come back and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Mao's earliest surviving essay, written when he was 19, was on one of China's most celebrated early exponents of cynicism and realpolitik, the fearsome 4th century B.C. administrator Shang Yang. Mao took Shang Yang's experiences as emblematic of China's crisis. Shang Yang had instituted a set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mao Zedong | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

One day an older boy, who was almost ready to shave, brought a pellet pistol to the war, not a feckless Daisy that would merely sting but a penetrating gas-fired model, almost as wicked as a .22.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy as Child's Play | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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