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Among the Democrats who want to succeed him, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. deserves commendation for raising important issues and advancing interesting proposals; his record on energy is one of innovation and intelligence. But his inexperience and tendency towards opportunism--the notorious flip-flop on Proposition 13 being the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...and the True Democrat | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

He stepped off a jet at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base and embraced his mother and his fiancee while his three beaming sisters looked on. Then, as a band launched into the Marines' Hymn, Sergeant Kenneth Kraus drew his 5-ft. 6-in. frame to proud attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Sergeant's Saga | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Resolutions of commendation, which pumped promiscuously out of most legislatures, got so overdone in South Carolina that one member this year exposed the absurdity with a resolution intended to commend "all persons, male and female, young and old, tall and short, fat and skinny, who have performed any act or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Trivial State of the States | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

While the well-to-do experiment with Western ways behind closed doors, groups of Islamic zealots, known the Committees for the Commendation of Virtue and the Condemnation of Vice, still patrol the streets outside. At prayer time these committees roam the cities and towns, ordering shops to close. Not long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Commendation is also due The Crimson for publishing this article. At my undergraduate school, the student newspaper continually subjected the gay and women's organizations to the kind of sophomoric "humor" that would quickly be condemned by all were it directed at black, Hispanic, or Asian minorities. It is refreshing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dispelling Fears | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

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