Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Moussa Traore had run the country dismally for 23 years. "I made a coup," says Toure, "but sometimes you have to give a quick kick to democracy." Rare among Africa's military bosses, A.T.T. had the courage to return his country to civilian control. "I watched officers my age in other countries take over," he says. "These men came in to save their countries, then stayed 20 years. But when a country is well managed, the constitution is respected, no captain can come out of his barracks. The vaccination against a coup is good government...
...Nike campus teems with adherents to this athletistocracy. It attracts a weirdly diverse collection of go-getters who are young (average age: 31) and confident, if not cocksure. Nike remains one of the most sought-after companies for employment by new M.B.A.s. Says Nelson Farris, another of Knight's former teammates: "We like employees who aren't afraid...
When he reached voting age, he marked his first ballot for Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Five decades later, he ran for President himself. But it is what he accomplished in between that made Dr. Benjamin Spock one of the most famous and controversial figures of his century. He single-handedly changed the way parents raise their children. He preached, albeit gently, that what infants need most from their mothers and fathers is love. Babies are not, he argued (against the prevailing wisdom of the times), little savages who must be broken to adult schedules as quickly as possible...
CLAIRE DANES doesn't come of age the easy way. At least twice already she's died onscreen before reaching adulthood, and in her upcoming film Brokedown Palace, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, she suffers her share of tribulations. Danes plays Alice, a wild-hearted high school grad who lies to her parents and heads off to Bangkok with her pal (Kate Beckinsale) in tow. "She wants to see where she stands on the other side of the world," explains Danes, who just wrapped up filming in Manila. Alas, the outlook isn't good for Alice: she meets the kind...
...rise of the Jerry Springer Show is one of the wonders of the age. A year ago, its ratings were mediocre, but since then they have improved 183%. In February it became the first syndicated talk show to beat Oprah since that show became No. 1 in 1987. What makes this so remarkable is that Oprah had been routing the competition handily for so many years. In March 1995, for example, when the Ricki Lake show peaked, it had a Nielsen rating of 6.1; at the same time Oprah's rating was 8.8. Now both Springer and Oprah have ratings...