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Ragonste cramped up in the fifth game as well, and Karlen shared his tiger balm with his competitor before resuming play. Ragonste then pulled out the final game...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patterson, Karlen Team Up, Win National Squash Title | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

...imprisonment wears on Erap even more than most inmates. None awaiting trial in the Philippine penal system has soared as high as this prisoner; so none can know how it feels to fall this far. Like many who are incarcerated, he has turned to religion, pop psychology, any spiritual balm for his depleted soul. He keeps a small shrine of candles and statues of St. Philomena and Christ and a sloppy pile of self-help books such as Your Personal Encourager: Biblical help for dealing with difficult times. He tries to look convincing when he says, "The trials that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Estrada on Ice | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...seen on an Indian satellite channel. Unlike Afghan TV shows, the Mexican soap, in which a married woman takes a lover after her husband has an affair, does not have its LOVE SCENES edited out. "I'm thrilled to find that the novela is providing balm for the suffering Afghan women after all the barbarism they've endured," says producer Epigmenio Ibarra, a former WAR CAMERAMAN who covered Sarajevo and the Persian Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Nation | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Battery Park City is a stroller?s balm on a summer day. Walk down the mile-and-a-quarter promenade - past the lovers on the lawn, the kids in their rubberized playground, the skateboarders pretending that Manhattan is Manhattan Beach, the al fresco diners at Steamer?s Landing. Stop to admire the imposing bandshell of the World Financial Center?s Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Where I Live | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...many messages coming out of Washington, it was because those messages evolved as Bush's overseas coalition was born and took its first steps--and then its first stumbles. The Bush team is settling into a patient, nuanced, two-front war in which humanitarian aid will be used to balm the anger of the Islamic world. As the U.S. gears up to wage war from as many as a dozen staging areas in Central Asia, it is also working on four other continents to mount a coalition to isolate the terrorists politically and economically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War On All Fronts | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

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