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...THIS ISN'T AMERICA, this can't be America," Sam Gwynne remembers thinking as he arrived in Oklahoma City on the afternoon of its darkest day. But it was, and Gwynne, Time's Austin bureau chief, was the first of six Time correspondents converging on Oklahoma City from all parts of the country (backed by two dozen others elsewhere) to report this week's unusually disturbing cover package. All had seen death before; each was nonetheless shaken by the enormity of the Oklahoma tragedy. Says correspondent Ann Simmons: "You can't become inured to suffering on this scale...
Somewhere lost in all the coverage of the long-delayed 1995 baseball season is the anniversary of baseball's darkest moment. It has been 75 years since the banishment of the eight White Sox players who were charged but not convicted of fixing the 1919 World Series...
More than any other Russian playwright, Chekhov is perceived in America as relevant to our age. This may be owing to his trafficking in gloom (any impulse toward optimism being, of course, evidence of callowness). But even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...
Seven years ago, almost no one--including Dole himself--thought that he would ever have another shot at the White House. He had failed twice. The 1988 election sent him into the darkest period of his political career. Then came a bout with prostate cancer-an old man's disease and a reminder that not even the superman who took Nazi fire would live forever. Meanwhile, there was the incessant yapping that he had to endure from combative young pups in his own party, who saw Dole as an artifact of that embarrassing era when Republicans had been willing...
...place in the revolution's vanguard was secured by virtue of his role as the True Believer, a title he alone can claim among his presidential rivals. He would have voters see him as the staunch ideologue whose time has finally come, an uncompromising conservative even in the darkest days of Democratic hegemony. In announcing his candidacy, Gramm played up his co-authorship of the ill-fated Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction plan, as well as his unbending resistance to the Clinton health-care plan. In these first moments of the campaign, Gramm is presenting his impeccable conservative credentials...