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...Gilligan's Island, which ran from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") in TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...Gilligan's Island, which aired from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 19, 2005 | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...Then there are the problems in his own camp. Even as Schr?der battles for votes, members of his Cabinet are openly advocating joining a grand coalition with the CDU, while dissidents in his own party are making plans without him. Not even flash floods in southern Germany?Schr?der's deft response to a similar crisis in eastern Germany helped him edge ahead of challenger Edmund Stoiber in 2002?look capable of saving him. "Every well-informed SPD voter knows that they cannot win this election," says Alfons S?llner, a political scientist at the Technical University of Chemnitz in eastern Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waving or Drowning? | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...June 2, 1979, he was about to change history. It was only the second of his 104 papal trips, but perhaps the most moving -and momentous. His inspiring, but carefully chosen words were credited by many as opening the first crack in the edifice of communism. John Paul's deft diplomacy and his experience of life behind the Iron Curtain made the Polish pontiff uniquely placed to tackle the defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed the papacy at a moment where the Cold War has been replaced by the challenge of Islamic extremism - an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict and Islam | 8/20/2005 | See Source »

...live T.V. feed projected the chefs’ deft handiwork onto a large screen, while emcee and HUDS general manager David Seley enthusiastically provided play-by-play commentary to a packed dinner-time crowd...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Flex Culinary Muscles | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

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