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Maybe it was the elixir of potential wealth in the air, or maybe it was carryover from the eagerness that characterizes recruiting, but the Crimson snagged a win--the first ever by a visitor--in Princeton Stadium because it was supremely opportunistic...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Can't Buy A Win | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...antidote to America's not-so-rewarding experiences with the judicial system. "We broke the proscenium of the courtroom world with the O.J. trial, and when we pierced that proscenium we saw stuff we hated," he says. "When Judy showed the audience that she was decisive, that was the elixir for all the malaise that we'd suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Here Come The Judges | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...before Faircloth's press conference, Edwards was peddling his own health-care elixir at a panel discussion in Raleigh. He condemned "health-care bureaucrats" who overrule doctors in determining a patient's treatment, and asked, "Are we gonna put the law on the side of the patient or...leave it on the side of the big insurance companies?" In the familiar terms of Southern populism, Edwards promised to be an "independent voice" in the Senate for those who "don't have Lear jets to fly them to Washington, don't have lobbyists walking the halls of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Republican Who's Taking His Medicine | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...when the market drops. The bigger the decline, the greater the opportunity. So goes the dogma of the day, and it is ironic that the greatest one-day plunge ever--the 1929 crash was a mere 12%--was the springboard for today's equity culture, which professes one elixir for every financial ailment: buy-and-hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARRIED TO THE MARKET | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...funding a study of Heantos' effectiveness , which will be overseen by the Johns Hopkins medical center. The brew will be analyzed at U.S. labs, and patients using it in Vietnam will be closely monitored. If Dan's elixir is proved effective, it may one day help the world's heroin addicts kick their deadly habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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