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...contribute our tax money to the cause. Too often, we do not have the time, or the ability, to think and write for ourselves. We should be proud that our country has chosen to reward those who do have the ability. Moreover, we should be especially proud of the brave Robert Pinsky, our newest Poet Laureate...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Pinsky's Worth the Money | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...Lake, Clinton's first choice to replace Deutch, has been chased from the theater, Tenet the understudy is onstage. Already, critics are waiting to coach him their lines: rein in the CIA's hard-core culture; implement ethics courses for officers; create "honest spies." Soon, he will have to brave the reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY THE SENATE LOVES AN UNDERSTUDY | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...hardly imagine contemporary black sports superstars taking an equally brave stand on a divisive moral issue. Most are far too concerned with raking in endorsement dollars to risk any controversy. In 1990 Michael Jordan, who occupies the psychological spot that Robinson pioneered as the dominant black athlete of his time, declined to endorse his fellow black North Carolinian Harvey Gantt over troglodyte racist Jesse Helms in a close contest for the U.S. Senate on the grounds that "Republicans buy shoes too." More recently, Jordan brushed off questions about whether Nike, which pays him $20 million a year in endorsement fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

Hello, Dolly, brave new ovine; art thou a wolf in sheep's cloning? DENISE KEENEY BODEY Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

Yesterday the second class of fresh-faced Harvard first-years was randomized as the experiment continues. What's the report from the front-line of randomization, from the brave pioneers who against their wills were brutally scattered across the campus? How is the lovely class of '99 faring as the first randomized class, a year after the fatal computer printouts were slipped under our doors on a bleak March...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: We Were The Housing Guinea Pigs | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

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