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...Just the language barrier itself in Japan creates a different atmosphere, but the crowds are always excited. They know your music and love to jump around. They're also really attentive and quiet. As soon as you start to say something, say anything, they're silent. Australia and England, on the other hand, have especially rowdy crowds...

Author: By Sumeet Garg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Southern Comfort of Lunatic Showmen: Feeling the' Five | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes to buy. At 3:30 the market rammed the 550-point barrier that triggers an hour shutdown. But the exchange closes at 4 p.m. Game, set, match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for a tad more flexibility on remarriage after divorce, and sees no doctrinal barrier to the eventuality of a married priesthood (which exists in the church's Eastern rite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BUCKLEY'S SECRET GARDEN | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...cant go through there," shouts an officer at a woman slithering around the barrier in hopes of gaining access to Littauer--a building in the exact opposite direction from the site of the speech. The woman objects, but the cop's not caving. Once you put the police in charge, it seems, there's no room left for a sensible, case-by-case approach to these kinds of situations: the rules are the rules, and that's that...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Saturday in the Yard--With Company | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...Apple is, not coincidentally, the site of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1947. Where else could Branch Rickey have pulled off integrating the national pastime during the Jim Crow era--very liberal...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Election Day Bedfellows | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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