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...attention? We've seen that winning the grueling Tour doesn't translate into instantaneous celebrity on American soil; heck, Greg LeMond won it three times, twice after being shot during a hunting accident, and mentioning his name in most sports bars will get you nothing more than a blank stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Who? Lance Armstrong Is the Real Sports Hero | 7/12/2000 | See Source »

...talk informally," says LeVake of his chats with fellow teachers. "I'd bring up things like 'Look at how complex this system is. It's hard for me to believe this all came about by chance mutations over billions of years.'" When department chair Ken Hubert asked LeVake point-blank how he planned to teach evolution, LeVake said, "I can't teach evolution." He instantly regretted it. "I said, 'Man, there's something wrong with what I just said,' because I think kids, when they go off to college...they have to know about Charles Darwin." LeVake says he simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Faribault, Minn.: The Science Of Dissent | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...That, however, doesn't end the party's woes. Buchanan is the lead contender for the nomination, but he faces a strong challenge from JOHN HAGELIN, who also represents the Natural Law Party. Meanwhile, Perotians are trying to put "No endorsement" on the party's ballot. If such a blank slate were to win, the party might not have a nominee, meaning it would lose its $12 million in federal matching funds and its party status for 2004. It would join the ranks of most American third parties, which have quickly faded away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unconventional Politics | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

They are, however, also aware of the formal conventions of 18th century warfare, which were peculiarly sanguinary: two armies lined up neatly, marched toward one another until they were at virtually point-blank range, then fired. It is the sort of battle in which war's deadly essence is thrown into the highest possible relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Cheer For Old Glory | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Jeffrey Wright makes quite an entrance in Shaft. He arrives with a phalanx of lackeys and junkyard dogs, an ice pick in his pocket and a trash-talking mouth aimed point-blank at Samuel L. Jackson. It's the kind of grand, self-important entrance you haven't seen since Liberace stopped making TV specials. And for the rest of the movie, Wright lives up to that moment with his broadly drawn, carefully shaded performance as Peoples Hernandez, a drug kingpin and the first great movie villain of this millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Wrong Is Mr. Wright | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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