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A bit about this girl: She's an Aborigine, as you know, and Aborigines are the indigenous people here, continuously persecuted for much of the last two centuries. Cathy, who's 27 now, grew up poor, of course, on a cattle station up north. She was a good runner early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Anyway, I asked if he thought Cathy would come through. "I think so," he said. "Gosh, I hope so." Then I tried my latest notion on him: that I figured this could be the most weighted, freighted - transcendent - race since Jesse Owens won in front of Adolf Hitler in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

I am truly grateful that TIME's art critic Robert Hughes survived his terrible auto accident [DISPATCH, Oct. 11]. But some of his comments disturbed me, as I'm sure they did other readers. After having his life saved, Hughes said, "Jesus must have been busy...he didn't show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Hughes says he didn't see Jesus beckoning at the end of a tunnel of white light (although he claims to have seen Death opening his mouth). I would like to ask if he also didn't see Christ among the Aborigine family that found him, the Bidyadanga people who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

My life was saved by an Aborigine. His name was Charlie Fishhook. He was driving back toward Broome with his wife and teenage daughter when he saw my wreck on the blacktop. He stopped and checked that I was breathing. He couldn't get much out of me but figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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