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...Presidents, and, as is so often the case, the last act is a welter of charges and countercharges, scandal and disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Seven-Year Itch | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

Before his surprise exit on the third day of the trial, Barbie spent most of his time in court listening without expression to a recitation of his % alleged crimes. His flamboyant lawyer, Jacques Verges, heatedly argued that his client was a victim of double jeopardy because in 1952 and 1954 he had already been convicted in absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death. Judge Cerdini will rule later on the claim. Barbie, now charged with "crimes against humanity," including the deportation of 44 Jewish children from a village near Lyons to Auschwitz, told the court his prosecution was "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Barbie's Mockery of Justice | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...alone late on Friday night and were not seen again until they emerged through the rear door on Saturday evening. Not until a day later, after the story had roared through the political community, did the Herald reporters concede they had not kept consistent watch on the rear alleyway exit until almost dawn Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Hart camp's occasionally inconsistent challenge of the Herald's story begins with the assertion that Rice returned to the candidate's town house for just 15 minutes late Friday night to retrieve an address book. In this version, Rice left through the alley exit to spend the night at Broadhurst's nearby home, where she shared a king-size bed with Armandt. Far more perplexing is Hart's unshakable insistence that the group entered and left through the front door of the town house on two separate occasions on Saturday afternoon. During that period the Herald had as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Throughout the performance Costello played on the audience's fear that he might make an early exit. Three times Costello shouted into the microphone, "Good night, and God bless," and then left the stage. Three times the English star was called back by chants of "Elvis" and standing ovations from the audience. He would play morethan an hour of encores...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Costello: Harvard's King for a Night | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

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