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...You’re going to get burnt if you don’t wear any sunscreen.” And I had walked out the door, shrugged my shoulders, and thought: “San Francisco is foggy and cold; I’ll be fine...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Playing Mom for a Month | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...Rubdown at club. New masseur almost killed me! I detect David Geffen's fine hand in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Do Lunch--Really! | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...Decide it would be easier to win Nobel Peace Prize than Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. I go to Baghdad, negotiate arms-inspection deal with Saddam, Gulfstream out of Iraqi air space before he reads the fine print and realizes he's screwed. Mike's back, big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Do Lunch--Really! | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...first Williams had a wild swing that often, eerily, found the ball. Later, observed Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski, "he studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market." Williams treated the game as a science and a fine art, weighing his bats on a postal scale, massaging them with olive oil and resin. When he said, "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders," he was speaking of a sharp eye--to read the seams on a curve ball and then smack the cover off it--and a UNIVAC brain that held all relevant data on a rival pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Respect For The Splendid Splinter | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People's Literature Publishing House, Harry's official Mandarin translator, seems powerless to protect its copyright. An official box set of the first three Potter books was published in October 2000 with an initial printing of 600,000 copies, which means Rowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faking It | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

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