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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OFFICIAL BLURB] "This is a private and personal matter," says Vince. "I would like to keep it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...OFFICIAL BLURB "Our marriage wasn't perfect, but I never exhibited the behavior she's accusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...amazed and pleasantly surprised by your cover on the Green Bay Packers. Here, finally, the whole U.S. could read the proud story of the small Midwestern town and its fans recapturing greatness. Green Bay's down-home friendliness was showcased and applauded. Then I caught a tiny blurb in the paper that burst my bubble. TIME ran two regional versions of its magazine. The one featuring the Green Bay Packers on the cover was distributed only in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The rest of the U.S. got a cover featuring a bereaved and saddened Bill Cosby. Boy, do I feel like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Except for a one-paragraph blurb that is supposed to describe Ralph Nader's platform, you have virtually ignored or dismissed Nader's candidacy. But I've seen surveys showing Nader with more support than Ross Perot, who has truly become the joke of this campaign. How about some real reporting on Nader's quixotic attack on the two-party system? Save the coverage of Perot's ramblings for the one-paragraph "amusing" blurbs. MIKE MYERS La Jolla, California Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...major new competitor for all that cash appeared in bookstores this summer: the New Living Translation (Tyndale House; 1,289 pages; $19.99). It comes with an initial print order of 950,000, a $2.5 million promotional budget and a fail-safe, back-cover blurb from Billy Graham. The book is handsomely bound and printed and contains, at the end, a useful series of maps of biblical places. And anyone who remembers the King James will find some pretty startling things inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POWER OF BABBLE | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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