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...harder for communities to define themselves, to set norms and to formulate a vision of the future independence of the new world order. As a result, fundamentalism is on the rise everywhere, and a resurgent religious movement in America seeks to establish through political power the values once bred in families and communities...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Ian's Little Lamb | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...catch rats, which explains why Holloway carries around a furry little squeaky toy in his pocket. Sometimes called the dog with the human brain, the standard schnauzer is not to be confused with his toy and giant cousins. Pa's history dates back to Italy, where he was bred by Gabrio Del Torre, who saw the dog's potential and shipped him to the best schnauzer handler he could find in the U.S., Doug Holloway. "Parla English, Italian," Del Torre said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: A DOG HAS HIS DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Fred Couples and Tom Watson were far more successful. So, has the luster worn off? Is he not the big deal we expected? Are we watching another Todd Marinovich--the boy bred by his father at birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time only to disappear from view after a mediocre career...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Tiger Roars | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...physical type, and in superficialities of temperament, Hiss and Chambers could not have been more different. Hiss on first inspection looked like the Fred Astaire of the mandarin left, lithe and well bred, the Establishment's own darling prothonotary warbler. Chambers, sad-sack Dostoyevskian pudge, more Slavic than American in mind, with terrible teeth and an air of doom, seemed to inhabit a flinching shadow world. He dodged through the '30s packing a revolver and hugging the walls of dark corridors. A paranoid smudge, the mandarins thought, whose amorphous bulk concealed a damaged child given to imagining grandiose conspiracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRED ASTAIRE MEETS THE SAD-SACK DOSTOYEVSKIAN PUDGE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...will be hard to hold Baesler responsible for Clinton's hits on the tobacco industry: a tobacco farmer, Baesler has chastised the President for threatening the fragile, tobacco-dependent economy of the state. He is also a born-and-bred Lexington boy who was captain of his college basketball team under hoop legend Adolf Rupp, and went on to become a three-time mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: KENTUCKY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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