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Most Americans feel obvious satisfaction at the expression of sorrow and the payment of what amounts to reparations for a woeful chapter in national history. Still, a number of ethical questions swirl around the issue. Chief among them: Was the internment justified in the context of its time? Is it necessary or right to apologize for a difficult decision made under unprecedented wartime pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: An Apology to Japanese Americans | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Since the start of divisional play in 1969, even counting the two woeful seasons past, the Orioles have won 45 more games than the fabled Yankees, 63 and 51 more than the Dodgers and Reds. And how -- not how many -- was the real distinction. In the front office and on the field, Baltimore played the game smartly, happily and hard and, from 1966 on, to win titles. That was the year Robinson first came over from Cincinnati to show them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Times in a Proud Town | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...political generation. The Harvard-educated Viet Nam veteran had it all: a subtle and supple mind tempered by a self-aware sense of humor, the savvy of a Southern bull breeder mixed with the polish of a Georgetown Prince Charming. Yet somehow he managed to rack up a woeful string of defeats in the Northern states until he finally limped away last week, perhaps permanently bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nova That Stayed Nebulous | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...jumping plasterer from England, spoke for all the Games' odd fellows when he declared, "To have jumped and still be alive -- it's a thrill." As if Edwards were the grand Finn Matti Nykanen himself, the Brit writers have claimed Eddie as their new knight of the woeful countenance (not to mention feeble eyesight and flapping elbows). What choice did they have? Out at Calgary's quaint hall for curling, the Scots were finishing last in another game they invented. It was pretty exciting curling, though the grandmothers knitting in the stands never dropped any stitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Triumph . . . And Tragedy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...with no one of that stature to override the candidate's own stubbornness. Even now Dukakis vows not to neglect his Governor's duties for the campaign trail. He still balks at suggestions that he adopt a more moving oratory, and resists foreign policy briefings that would remedy his woeful lack of sophistication in that area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling for The Post-Liberal Soul | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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