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Elias' numbers have fallen to the level of mere mortals, because of his three-carry, two-yard game against Holy Cross last week, a game he suited up for in spite of an ankle injury. Before that, Elias was already being fitted for the blue spandex suit and red cape. Check out these Superman-ly, pre-Holy Cross statistics...
Just as Wright was a modernist who didn't like the rubric, so too was he a prototypical modern figure in all the meretricious pop senses. He was a child of a dysfunctional family. He wore long hair and dressed expensively and eccentrically for effect: broad-brimmed hat, cape, velvet suit with lace collar and cuffs, immense bows, tassled cummerbunds, high heels. He was not just an adulterer but a free-love ideologue. He was a media celebrity; trains and theater curtains were held for him. And he marketed his fame: during the Depression he started charging devotees to come...
Anyone who thinks that economists practice a dismal science has never been treated to the vivid commentaries of Allen Sinai. "It's the forces of darkness vs. the forces of light," he says, describing the tensions at play in the U.S. economy. "Hate vs. love, like in the original Cape Fear, but the love will win." Sinai, president of the Boston Co. Economic Advisors, was one of five experts who convened in New York City last week for a TIME economic forum. The meeting was part of a tradition going back to 1969, when the magazine began inviting top economists...
Further coverage was provided by Cape Town correspondent Peter Hawthorne and Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod. In the United States, meanwhile, former TIME senior editor Jack White compiled a black American's view of Africa and the impact of the evolving African-American lobby...
Even as De Klerk impressed the world with his reforms, some in South Africa feared that the process of change might one day run up against the unwillingness of whites to cede power to blacks. Reform, says Cape Town novelist Andre Brink, went against De Klerk's grain but was forced upon him by circumstances -- black uprisings, international isolation, economic rot. "Now, at the first sign of things not going his way," says Brink, "his real colors are beginning to show -- his conservatism and belief in force as the only way of getting out of a dilemma...