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Watson and Crick reflect on the revolution they wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...informant told investigators that Arnaldo Forlani, an ex-Prime Minister and former head of the Christian Democrat Party, had conspired with Craxi to split payoffs for government contracts. Forlani denied the charges. And members of the Italian Social Democratic Party are suspected of accepting illegal contributions. The damage wrought by the ongoing scandals may be irreparable. Italian newspaper headlines are flatly proclaiming the end of the First Republic, as Italy's postwar democracy is known. With 51 governments since 1945, it would be hard for the second republic not to be an improvement on the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Scrub | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...actually began in January, shortly after Zuckerman bought the News for $36.3 million. Once the top tabloid in the U.S., with a circulation of 3 million (now 777,000), the paper had been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News to Post: Drop Dead | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...cases that meant the most to him, particularly those involving capital punishment, I asked whether he felt discouraged by the court's increasingly conservative tilt. He told me that he did not, that he had seen a lot worse than was remotely conceivable nowadays, that the progressive changes wrought by the civil rights revolution would prove more lasting than the reaction against them, and that, in any event, hand wringing was a futile response to challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man: THURGOOD MARSHALL | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...French-English disagreements may have cooled, but Canada's confederation is still likely to change dramatically in the years ahead, according to a panel of experts convened recently by TIME to consider the country's future. The main reason: sweeping changes wrought by the 1988 U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, which will be reinforced by the prospective North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back On Track | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

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