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...going to win this week. I can just feel it. That, or I am coming down with something. But seriously, this could be the moment for the Bucs' QB, Trent Dilfer, to suffer a gigantic nervous breakdown. On a more positive note, we could just see the Eagles' Duce Staley run away with the ball and take the birds to a 16-10 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL: On Top of the Covers | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...govern- ment's commitment to economic reform. At stake is a $12 billion loan package to back an economic-stabilization program. Parliament jeopardized that program last week by deciding to delay a critical vote on the 1995 budget that is intended to curb runaway government spending and re- duce the deficit. A revised budget, now being hastily put together by government economists, is supposed to allow for the estimated $1.2 billion the Chechen campaign has cost so far. If, as it looked last week, the war has not ended but has merely entered a new phase, Boris Yeltsin may find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FIGHT TO THE LAST BOY? | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini praised the former dictator who allied himself with Hitler as "the greatest statesman of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knight Of The New Right | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...their report, the senators proposed increased U.S. efforts to re- duce the nuclear threat...

Author: By Nara K. Ahn, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Senators: U.S. Must Dismantle Weapons | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

...everybody hates him. The Benito Mussolini of baseball. The Roy Cohn of sports. Choose your metaphor. (Cohn and Steinbrenner were actually buddies; the Boss' links with Il Duce are more shadowy.) If men are defined by their enemies, Winfield stacks up quite well...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: In Your Face, George! | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

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