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...admit, it wasn't the boldest prediction, but...remember that stuff I said about Tiger Woods earlier this school year? Remember what I was saying about being a once-in-a-generation, history-making athlete? Remember when I told everyone to make sure they watched what he did because it was going to be revolutionary? 'Nuff said...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Hello World? | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

...boldest power plays in Oleanna are those that the script plays against its own characters. In the first act, Carol's whiny narrowness is hopelessly outmatched by John's self-assurance. Davidson deftly expressed John's arrogance, reading the line "I love you, too," spoken to his wife over the phone, not as a response to her own affection but as a pompous self-affirmation. "I love myself first," he implicitly states, "and I also love you." Kaye, for her part, squeezed a few unlikely laughs out of Carol's anxious despair in the face of confounding verbiage like...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: An Overly Simplistic 'He Said, She Said' | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Mothers are allowed to say these things. But one doesn't have to be David Da-i Ho's mother to be aware of his brilliance. He lays forth clearly and succinctly some of the boldest yet most cogent hypotheses in the epic campaign against HIV; at the same time, he operates nimbly through the budgetary and political pitfalls of the enterprise. And though he is monumentally tranquil in demeanor, he has been known to fling the occasional hot one-liner against naysayers--once, "It's the virus, stupid!" to those who insist HIV is not the cause of AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DR. DAVID HO: THE TAO OF HO | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and the center of a conflict between rival Kurd factions. And then, despite warnings from Washington, Saddam's forces rolled north toward Erbil. After heavy artillery pounded the city, the Iraqis quickly took control on Saturday. The Iraqi offensive was Saddam's boldest move since the end of the Gulf War five years ago, and set the stage for a new test of wills between Washington and Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SADDAM'S SWIFT SWORD | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Another chapter is hurtling toward what its author hopes will be a breathtaking close. Storm clouds are gathering, foreshadows lengthening. You are firmly in the grip of what the book jacket avers is "Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror." Your eye skips to the bottom of the page, and this is what you read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: STEPHEN KING: MONSTER WRITER | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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