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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What best prepares a man to be speaker of the House? Being the water boy for his high school football team? Enjoying the rowdy pleasures of his college frat house? Or learning how to play the trumpet while driving a car? The first Republican to make a grab at Gingrich's job last week has all those qualifications, which may come in handy in a job that requires carrying water for brawling factions, holding steady in a raucous ideological environment and doing more than one thing at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal Cutter With A Bit Of A Temper | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Georgia had Lester Maddox and Louisiana had Earl Long, and now Minnesota has gone and got an interesting Governor of our own: a pro wrestler with a shaved head and a bad-boy swagger whose voice is hoarse from bellowing at opponents and threatening to rip their arms from their sockets. He was the protest candidate, a chance to throw toilet paper in the trees and piss off Dad, nobody dreaming he would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota's Excellent Ventura | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Christian fundamentalists claim that changing from homosexual to heterosexual is possible through adherence to Christian principles. That idea is insidious at best and a downright lie at worst. Back in the mid-1970s, I could have been the poster boy for one of those "conversions" to heterosexuality ads. I claimed I had "changed," and even got married and fathered a son. But no matter how hard I prayed to change my sexual orientation, no matter how much I believed I could be "delivered" from the sin of homosexuality, I finally had to accept the inevitable. I came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...crew of the shuttle Discovery was apparently smart enough to come in out of a storm, returning safely to Earth last Saturday before the Leonid meteor shower could begin. The mission's glamour boy, however--veteran astronaut John Glenn--was a bit unsteady, both in orbit and on his return to terra firma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He-e-e-e-re's Johnny! | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...plot is weakand often hackneyed, but Sandler's hilariousphysical comedy is reminiscent of the great JerryLewis. So go see The Waterboy if youcackled wildly at the immature, adolescent humorof Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore,but not if you desire the cozy, sweet, romanticcomedy of The Wedding Singer. Maybe"Canteen Boy" doesn't have a sensitive side afterall

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WET & WILD with ADAM SANDLER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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