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...Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from itself. Even functionaries who?ve served most of their adult lives in the political establishment are prone to reinvent themselves as folksy outsiders when candidacy calls. Think Liddy Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Winning the Middle | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Currier House: 1. Ugly house in the Quadwhere you have to be buzzed to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...that the relentless strains of 'N-sync won't drive the old folks up front 'N-sane. Happily, there's a headphone jack near every seat for music and games as well as TV. On this trip, all passengers will be issued a pair of headphones as they enter the van to minimize the chance that Dad might rip Barney and his chirpy friends from the VCR and toss them into Chesapeake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: The Easy Riders | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...bombers that emerged as the technological heroes of the war. But that evening, faces at the White House turned ashen. Commanders of Russian troops in Bosnia, evidently worried about the fate of Kosovar Serbs, had rumbled into Pristina, Kosovo's capital, despite an earlier understanding that they would not enter until agreement had been reached with NATO on command of the peacekeepers. On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov apologized and said the troops would withdraw, but as the day wore on, they stayed put, effectively in charge of the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Won? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...credibility and positive media focus that probably no openly gay person ever had. Not everyone cheered, of course, and death threats multiplied. Milk spoke often of his ineluctable assassination, even recording a will naming acceptable successors to his seat and containing the famous line: "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pioneer HARVEY MILK | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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