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^ When adults lament the absence of "values," it is worth recalling that children are an honest conscience, the perfect mirror of a society's priorities and principles. A society whose values are entirely material is not likely to breed a generation of poets; anti-intellectualism and indifference to education do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shameful Bequests to The Next Generation | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

The Iraqi President's videotaped message to America last week was absurdly long -- 75 minutes of a staid Saddam at his desk, potted plant to his left -- and the rambling script brimmed with illogic, non sequiturs and esoteric references to history. In the land of the sound bite, where attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Battle Beckons | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

Some people want to know who killed Laura Palmer, the Twin Peaks homecoming queen with a past, the identity of whose murderer has been kept secret nearly as long as that of Jimmy Hoffa. More people, it seems, want to know about David Lynch's eating habits. How many damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Yet neither signs of hardening alienation nor scattered election returns signal border-to-border upheaval. Norman Ornstein, a consultant on the Times Mirror project, argues, "Linkage between these attitudes and political action hasn't yet been made in most places." One reason is that the Persian Gulf crisis has dominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throw Some of the Bums Out! | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

The game opened up with the Wildcats looking worthy of their recent win over Hartford. A minute-and-a-half into the match, the Wildcats shot a foot wide of the Crimson net. But play settled down after the early threat, as both defenses squelched their opponents' opportunities. Harvard goalie...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: M. Booters Knock off Wildcats At Ohiri | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

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