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But there is one thing he did not promise, and that's what separated this day of mourning for the Kennedys from all the others. There was no rhetoric of the kind Ted Kennedy used at the 1980 Democratic Convention, when he said, "The dream shall never die." A Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell, John | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

It's a classic tale, told and retold through the ages: the hero reaches for greatness but fails, finds wisdom and maturity in scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs' Golden Apple | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

In 1960, on the night John F. Kennedy returned from the Democratic National Convention as the party's nominee for President, his two-year-old daughter Caroline toddled out of the family's Hyannis Port home to greet her father. Immediately a fusillade of photographers' camera bulbs went off, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg: CHAMPION OF CIVILITY | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

They were the matron of honor and best man at each other's weddings, a pillar in each other's lives and that of the country, dividing the labor of carrying on their father's legacy: Caroline taking the library, John the Kennedy School. But as close as they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Then There Was One | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

In pop music there's an important difference between experimentation and invention: the former implies the willingness to challenge convention; the latter also suggests the ability to create interesting new sounds. This Mexican group is one of the most praised Spanish-language rock bands around, but unfortunately its new double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reves/Yo Soy | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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