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Winners BILL GATES Mogul wins award for his funding of vaccine development. Feds haven't weighed in on his plan to bundle those vaccines with Office XP KIM JONG IL N. Korea's leader makes state visit to Moscow in armored train. Obviously, he's worried about being mobbed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

How do stones acquire the hearts of men? At the risk of misinterpreting the famously incomprehensible Rav Kook, it seems to me that there is only one way: if men leave in stones their own hearts. Unlike the gorgeous mosques next door, the Western Wall is nothing to look at?...

Author: By David C. Newman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON: My Sweet George | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

Long tainted with the romance and condescension of the word primitive, African works have come to be valued for their intrinsic beauty and artistic merit. In the 1950s, both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art turned down an opportunity to acquire Nelson Rockefeller's extensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looting Africa | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

The incentives driving the Bostonians to Expoland were obvious. Recently, the Red Sox have been producing record attendance numbers despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly...

Author: By David R. De remer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM MONTREAL: Boston Invaders Turn Heads | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

“What she shared with them was a ladylike but faintly defiant tilt of her head, the determination not to be bullied. Mrs. Graham had that thing female athletes and activists in women’s sports are always trying to acquire, charge of their own arms and...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Katharine Graham, 1917-2001 | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

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