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Gump, however, refuses to suggest its idiot might be mistaken -- he must come out a winner. Thus by the closing credits, he is triumphantly spouting the same faux wisdom as at the beginning: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." And America is cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forrest Gump Is Dumb | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Though few in Mexico really expect a massive uprising when the winner is announced after next week's presidential vote, the Chiapas declaration touched a national nerve. An anxious Mexico, ruled by the longest-lived one-party system in the world, is about to hold its most competitive election ever. For the first time since 1929, the long tradition of fraudulent elections has given way to a belief that the opposition has a genuine chance of winning. Yet most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of El Presidente | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...also happy to have Brack liberated from day-to-day decisions to do more for me and Time Inc. of what he does so well: represent us forcefully and eloquently in a wide variety of public arenas. A winner earlier this year of the magazine industry's highest honor, the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, Brack is the board chairman of the National Urban League, chairman of the Advertising Council and past chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. He has maintained Time Inc.'s leadership and performance through a period of momentous change, and he has put the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Aug. 22, 1994 | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...celebrities include Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Harvard Overseer Desmond Tutu, as well as a famous boxer and a star singer. None of the luminaries endorse a political party in the film...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Mayoral Staffer Galvam Discusses Birth of South African Democracy | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...were in "the Age of Aquarius" in '69, what "Age" are we in now? Win the much coveted -- and very cool -- TIME Daily T-Shirt! Send your answers to "WMay." We'll have a blind drawing Monday afternoon and notify that person whose karma catapults him into the winner's circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANOTHER GROOVY TIME DAILY CONTEST | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

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