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Karla: Benjamin! What courage! ((Benjamin, 1, has climbed up the wooden slide for the first time.)) That's like climbing Mount Everest! That's how you conquer the world, that's right! That's how you do it! ((Bertha takes a photograph of Benjamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Day Care with a Lot of Caring | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...market. His originally nameless father on Krypton, for example, became Jor-L, then Jor-El (and eventually Marlon Brando). His employer in Metropolis, before it was the Daily Planet, was the Daily Star and then the Evening News. His Luciferian arch-enemy Luthor, the mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, once had red hair, then became bald, then reacquired red hair; in the movies he was played as a buffoon, but now he has turned into a reasonably sane but incurably wicked conglomerate tycoon. Superman is also vulnerable to Kryptonite, the stuff that Krypton was made of, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...seats went to Bush supporters. While Dole and Robertson were staying in the same New Hampshire hotel last week, they met to discuss boycotting the debate. The Senator, however, denied persistent rumors that he and Robertson had talked about dividing their resources throughout the South in an effort to conquer Bush. "We don't need to make a deal," sniffed Dole's Florida coordinator, Rocky Pennington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again The Man to Beat | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...likely to become any less intense. For Dole at 64 and Bush at 63, this may be the last chance to run for the office they so desperately want. Having overcome all the adversities life has thrown at him, Dole sees the presidency as one more challenge to conquer so as to make the pain go away. Bush, for his part, sees a President every time he looks in the mirror, and has ever since he was a schoolboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Coach Rob Reilly's Cadets (7-13-2, 1-11-2) have a high mountain to conquer if they are going to defeat the first place Crimson. Last November at Bright Center, Army did not have the firepower to sustain a five-goal opening period barrage by Harvard that gave the host a 6-2 victory...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Head South | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

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