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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baltimore loyalists were struck by the way players like third baseman Omar Linares, who earns about $100 a month, evoked the grace of Joe DiMaggio and other major league greats of the past. The Cubans' joyful hustle offered quite a contrast to the surly indifference of millionaire Orioles like Albert Belle, who was fanned repeatedly by Cuban pitchers. Says Baltimore fan Paul Koehnlein, a 41-year-old electrical engineer: "The Cubans fill every inning with the heart and the attention to fundamentals that U.S. players don't show our kids anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuban Aces Charm A Baseball-Loving City | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Mahatma Gandhi's last moments. Much of the narrative runs to the cloyingly inspirational, and a good deal of it challenges credulity. For example, Caryl Chessman, awaiting execution at San Quentin, is portrayed as an intellectual who speaks in finely wrought sentences as he discourses about crime prevention, citing Albert Camus ("What a writer!"). Oh, what a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thousand Suns | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...prostitutes. It gets better. Will Smith kicks off July Fourth weekend with the wacky Wild Wild West. Need a new superhero? Try Mystery Men, with Ben Stiller and Geoffrey Rush as defunct superheroes. Need a testosterone boost? Check out Sharon Stone in The Muse, a new comedy from Albert Brooks. For animaniacs, there's Tarzan and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (love that title). With so many movies and so little time, forget work and head towards the theaters. May you choose wisely and may the, um, Force be with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER 1999 | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...small permanent faculty who work alongside the institute's approximately 180 visiting scholars, which Scott said sets it apart from the new Radcliffe Institute. Permanent faculty members receive a lifetime appointment at the institute, and stay for an estimated 20 to 30 years. Faculty members, whose ranks have included Albert Einstein, tend to be world-renowned scholars in their fields...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Learns Institute Details | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...ALBERT & ALLEN HUGHES PAST FILMS Menace II Society, Dead Presidents FUTURE FILM From Hell AGE DIFFERENCE: Albert, 27, is nine minutes older FUN FAMILY FACT: Mother was the Pomona, Calif., chapter president of National Organization for Women RECURRING MOTIFS: Violence, '70s music HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "As co-producers and co-directors of their films, the brothers work very much in concert." --New York Newsday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1999 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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