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...joked that the strike never would have happened if Kuhn had been alive. Like most past baseball commissioners, Kuhn was widely regarded as the owners' man, hired to do their bidding. Ueberroth struck a more independent stance, even siding with the players on the crucial issue of the salary cap. He argued that the free market should set players' salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Win for the Fans | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...then his daughter mentioned Keillor's show, and so did another musician. "I decided to tune in," he says. "That man's voice just mesmerizes people. I called my agent and told him to book me." Their first meeting was not electric. "He was backstage wearing a ball cap and casual clothes," Atkins goes on, "and I told him right off how much I enjoyed his show. He just looked at me and then walked away. You can't compliment him, as I learned. He's quiet, very introverted and shy. I am too. Maybe that's why we became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonesome Whistle Blowing | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. originally proposed the 6,000 cap but wants to include weapons in which the U.S. has an edge: gravity bombs and short-range attack missiles launched from planes. It wants to ban air-launched cruise missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geneva:The Whole World Will Be Watching | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Beneath its distinctive decor, the conspicuous helmet was a cap of riveted metal leaves, weighing up to 11 lbs. and meant to protect a man's skull against sword and club. But was ever a martial object more drenched in symbolic fancy? The helmet had to convey no meaning to the warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Move Over, Darth Vader | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...CAP system is an engineering marvel of the first order. It is designed to move precious Colorado River water, at the rate of more than 10 million cu. ft. per hour, from Lake Havasu on the California border southeast across the state to the expanding population centers of Phoenix and Tucson. A series of 14 pumping stations will force the water through a seven-mile tunnel in the Buckskin Mountains and lift the load 2,900 ft. over the course of a seven-day journey. The flow is monitored by a Modcomp JC 5000 computer situated in CAP headquarters near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Splash in the Arid West | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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