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Once the dust settles on the issue, it remains to be seen whether the Republican governor and dominantly Democratic Senate and House of Representatives will ever be able to look past their differences and work together in solving the deficit crisis.

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Pay Raises for Weld's Cabinet, Narrowly Clearing the Democratic Legislature, May Face the Same Fight Again | 4/10/1991 | See Source »

The gulf war is a test not just of armies but of arms, and the big loser is already clear: France. During the Iran-Iraq war, Baghdad laid out $16 billion for Mirage jets, Exocet missiles and other French-made weapons -- close to a third of the Iraqi arsenal. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMS MAKERS: The Guns Of Gaul | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

We do not fight every just war we find. and we should not because to play on words, not every just war in justifiable. The fact that the war in Iraq is "just" settles nothing.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Troops Stop Shooting Now! | 1/25/1991 | See Source »

Van Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Meteor That Didn't Burn Out | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

By 5 p.m., streetlamps flicker on in front of Leningrad's palatial city hall and a blanket of luminescent mist settles over the gilded dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral, just across the square. Night and fog come early now to the far northern city, built on islands in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrapped In Cotton Wool | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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