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If things get much worse for his campaign, Dole will start waving his wizened arm like a magic wand, frantically trying to capture the delegates he needs to win in San Diego. He will tell and retell the story of how his right arm was paralyzed. If his poll numbers...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: WHEN DOLE GETS DESPERATE | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

If Arizona's plan is the wizened grandfather of them all, then Tennessee's is the cranky infant. In January 1994, less than two months after the Federal Government approved the state for a 1115 waiver, TennCare was under way. Perhaps the most ambitious state-waiver program in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TALE OF TWO STATES | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Some of Dubuffet's subjects, like Jean Paulhan, had impeccable Resistance records. Others, like Paul Leautaud -- a brilliant aphorist -- decidedly did not. So when Dubuffet put a portrait of Leautaud, wrinkled like a tortoise or (as his title had it) "a red-skinned sorcerer," into the same portrait show as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Outlaw Who Loved Laws | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

There hasn't even been a political trend worth mentioning -- the election signifying less a leftward trend than a rejection of the rightward trend, which has been slithering around for two decades now. As a result, we've been forced to import trends, like karaoke, or revive fossil trends like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Won't Somebody Do Something Silly? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

8:45 a.m. The feeding begins. Guards select about 20 people from the front rows and steer them toward the food vats, six huge oil barrels cut in half and fitted with wire handles. Working quickly, Somali servers ladle out two large cupfuls of steaming Unimix, a brownish mixture of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Day in the Death of Somalia | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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