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...past a field of beans--Bradley's farm--and pull into a lot beside the Mississippi. With the sun setting, the sky is etched with a calligraphy of pink clouds, their reflection a soft wash on the river surface. "Well, here it is," Bradley says with satisfaction. He describes boyhood rituals, times when he would "be still and listen to the wind in the cottonwood trees and watch the current carry what it had scoured from half a continent." He calls the river "a metaphor for democracy" and talks about the peace he finds here. We do our best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bradley's Twilight Cruise | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Overcoming early jitters against MaliVai Washington, the 1996 Wimbledon runner-up, Blake defeated his boyhood idol, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Tennis Star Turns Pro | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

Overcoming early jitters against Mali-Vai Washington, the 1996 Wimbledon runner-up, Blake defeated his boyhood idol, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Tennis Star Blake Becomes Pro | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...surface, even when the topics were somber. When reporters asked about his affiliation with Islam, he joked that he was going to have four wives: one to shine his shoes, one to feed him grapes, one to rub oil on his muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea of fun was to frighten his parents--putting a sheet over his head and jumping out at them from a closet, or tying a string to a bedroom curtain and making it move after his parents had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUHAMMAD ALI: The Greatest | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Episode I gets lost in a world of juicy but ultimately soulless revelation. Every five minutes a new character makes its incredibly propitious entrance into the Star Wars saga--R2-D2 is the droid that saves the queen's ship from destruction and C-3PO was Darth Vader's boyhood engineering hobby--Tatooine just happens to be the most convenient planet for a pit stop...

Author: By By BEN E. lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Force Has Left Us | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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