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...Francisco's gay community, was one of the first to confirm Rock Hudson's homosexual life after Hudson announced he had AIDS, and in interviews Maupin has named many other entertainers, some of them married, whom he knows or believes to be gay. Says Maupin of those he would drag out of the closet: "Their embarrassment and self-loathing makes me lose respect for them. It also indicates to me they find my life repugnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Forcing Gays Out of the Closet | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...frustration at not being able to bring Noriega to justice, however, Bush hailed the dictator's surrender to the papal nuncio as "a marvelous Christmas present." It promptly put a stop to the fighting that had threatened to drag out into a guerrilla campaign; Noriega loyalists saw no point in battling on after their chief was gone. Last week American troops turned their attention to restoring law-and-order and suppressing looting in Panama City, sometimes in joint patrols with members of the Panama Defense Forces (now renamed Public Forces) with whom they had exchanged gunfire days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama No Place To Run | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Coleman and Miner aren't the only two pitiful players Raveling has to drag around to road games. Just because guards like Robert Pack and Duane Cooper could dominate an Ivy League Game doesn't mean they aren't dead weight...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Some Coaches Get No Breaks | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

...acumen is his sure feel for what is truly important to his task and, conversely, a breathtaking audacity in discarding what he believes is less than vital. This year, without a great deal of visible hand wringing, he decided that Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was a drag on his campaign to restructure the Soviet Union. Hence his emergence as the Commissar Liberator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Touch | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...clicked off our list of things that we wanted to accomplish didn't exactly disarm him, but it did show him that we were ready to move forward on a lot of things he wanted. He may have been pleased it wasn't going to take hours to drag them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Game of One-on-One | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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