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...people, when any combination of the former Presidents takes the stage it has huge impact in global politics; free trade, AIDS awareness, terrorism alert. The number of requests for appearances and endorsements now flood all their offices, and a subterranean network of staffers has sprung up so they can brush off imposters who falsely claim one of the other members has signed on to some cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Benefits of Being an Ex-President | 4/23/2005 | See Source »

Coiled to the left of home plate, he has scarcely stirred from the position he staked nearly 23 major league seasons, almost 4,192 hits, ago. The brush-cut hair that blew to bangs and billowed to bouffant has been tamed and dyed. The kneesprung crouch has lost barely a trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Editors: Garrison Keillor [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 4] has made me laugh and my husband cry on Saturday nights. If Keillor wants to be named The Sun God or King of America or even Idol of Millions, give it to him. Janis M. Houston Brush, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...common belief among the runners was that mornings are the best time to exercise, and McDonough said that an early run calms her throughout the day. But not everybody can brush the sleep out of their eyes— and legs– for an early start...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students To Run Marathon | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...surprise. The violence in recent weeks has bred more violence. Almost every day has seen reports of townships in upheaval, and bloody confrontations between blacks and armed police have become chillingly routine. Last week, as the total number of black deaths since September passed 450, the political brush fires spread to a place with an ominously familiar name: Soweto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: A Crackdown on Violence | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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