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...Little Leaguer's impulse to imitate led naturally to Joe DiMaggio, a Yankee with whom I found it easy to identify. Or at least as easy as it can be for a black kid from Brooklyn to identify with a white man playing for the white flag-bearer of a segregated sport...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: END OF THE LINE | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...Dole should have tipped us off. When even the stoic standard-bearer of the Greatest Generation is discussing male plumbing problems in public, you know sexual dysfunction has permeated the culture. And when two of the season's most talked-about films, Summer of Sam and Eyes Wide Shut--the latter a gothic sexual hell that would do a medieval allegorist proud--center on orgies that go terribly wrong, a horny romp like American Pie seems quaint. So it's only fitting that TV, long charged with glamorizing lust, is airing images of sex that are not just unglamorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex on TV is... ...Not Sexy! | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...child, our little boy, flitting in and out of camera range around the White House when his dad was President. He did grow up and become that elegant New York City editor, John F. Kennedy Jr., the clan's flag bearer of what was good and glamorous. But I never could get over the memories around the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy We Called John-John | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Ending social promotion is part of an attempt to restore some value to the shredded America high school diploma, which cannot now assure anyone that the bearer can even read or write. DAN HAGEN Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...will be using its cable lines to provide local phone service, creating needed competition for its old kin, the Baby Bells. But regulators are worried about how to bell the cat. "Overnight, AT&T has not only become the No. 1 cable company but also the de facto standard-bearer for the future of telecom," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumhol. "They're now the only company really positioned to offer the one-stop Internet, cable and phone service that the industry is headed toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something's Buggin' Feds About New-Look Ma Bell | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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