Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With similar games, heights, and dark cropped hair, the two are at times indistinguishable without the numbers on their jerseys...
...morning after Joe Firmage had his revelation about gravity and quantum mechanics that the alien showed up. The clock radio went off in his Los Gatos, Calif., home at 6:10, and he'd just hit snooze when the image of a dark, bearded man appeared over his bed. "Why have you bothered me?" the visitor asked, sounding rather annoyed...
Like a weasel, Bill Clinton emerges from the drainpipe shinier than when he went in. He has spent a year in the dark, ever since that night last January when he called his slippery guru Dick Morris and asked him to take the country's moral temperature. When Morris' polling suggested that people could stomach an affair but not a cover-up, Clinton's response was his mantra. "Well, we'll just have to win then." Now, on the anniversary of that vow, the President seems to have made good...
...nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank range. In recent weeks, for the first time, Aguilar described to TIME how, working through intermediaries, Raul Salinas arranged for the killing of Ruiz Massieu, a political leader...
...didn't have a snowball's chance of ultimately being chosen by the I.O.C. "We did very little entertaining because we had been told not even to contact U.S.O.C. members," Wilson recalls. "So we go to Indianapolis in June of 1985, and we lose." He was baffled. "Anchorage is dark, doesn't have any venues, doesn't have nearly the culture we did." Back in Salt Lake, Wilson started hearing about fishing trips to Alaska by U.S.O.C. delegates, hunting trips, helicopter rides. "Whether those were rumors or not, we said, 'We screwed up. Anchorage schmoozed and we lost. Next round...