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...seldom work. Typically, the retired athlete, deprived of the thrills of his prime, returns full of hope, only to be promptly reminded why he left: his body doesn't work like it used to. What Gould is doing amounts to a comeback: on April 1, aged 47, she'll crouch on the blocks beside teen-agers to contest the 50-m butterfly at the Australian Olympic Team Swimming Trials in Sydney. But it's a comeback of a type not known in Australian sport. "It's a test," she says - of what she's learnt lately about her mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindred Spirits | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...have been very comfortable in his hole. The place where U.S. forces finally captured the former Iraqi leader goes down about four feet into the ground. It tunnels forward another four feet before bisecting a roughly six-foot long chamber in which a man could lie down or crouch, but not much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Saddam's Hideout | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...like is when we have to categorize everything in order to appreciate or understand it," he wrote in an email. "At Pantheon, we do not see these books as part of a 'line,' or a 'program' any more than we would books by Ha Jin or Stanley Crouch. They are simply books we want to publish that happen to use the form of visual narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

Dean is a reincarnation of Eugene McCarthy. This is not the time for Democrats to do a Don Quixote routine. They need to find a real candidate who can win and enable Bush to become the next baseball commissioner. TIM CROUCH Lubbock, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 2003 | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...civil rights leadership could cope with his honesty. In 1953, he was arrested for sexual activity in a car--a "morals charge" that embarrassed his allies, humiliated him and was brutally exploited by, among others, Strom Thurmond. So, like many public gay men, Rustin was forced into a defensive crouch because of his sex life. Having struggled for his dignity as an African American, he was still subject to the dehumanization implicit in homophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Invisible Man | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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