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...standard-bearer of the Social Democratic Party, Schroder's slogan may be the prosaic "New Middle," but he has discarded years of leftist orthodoxy and learned from the mistakes of his predecessors. In 1990 the SPD promised to slow down the privatization of former East German industries to protect the workers; Schroder now preaches the need for the private sector to become more competitive by cutting labor costs. In 1994 the party proposed higher taxes on middle- and upper-income families; Schroder wants to cut the highest income tax rate from 53% to 47% and reduce corporate rates from...
...leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing up at premieres arm in arm, snuggling in front of the President at the White House correspondents' dinner, became a gossip columnist's dream and a public relations nightmare. And just as suddenly, Disney's frothy little summer vehicle for Ford became the bearer of a heavy burden: Would moviegoers accept Hollywood's first avowedly lesbian leading lady...
Your readers would be better served by the broader coverage that has made TIME the standard bearer for insightful reporting than by so many pages on this scandal [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. All of us can obtain gossip from the supermarket tabloids. Forget the sleaze. LEN BLAIR Hermiston...
...legends--from Massachusetts' original James Michael Curley to a young idealist named John F. Kennedy '40, to the shepherd of the Democratic revolution in Congress, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, to blue-collar standard bearer, Joseph P. Kennedy...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...