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...Head of the Charles and root for the home team, after stocking up on T-shirts, hot pretzels and beer. Thanks for your support, and enjoy those shirts. But we rowers know a poser shirt when we see one, and we know whom you are trying to fool...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 3/17/1990 | See Source »

...mind, Holmes told Watson, is like an attic. "You have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out." Holmes stocked his own mental attic with a detailed knowledge of chemistry and cigar ashes. Knowing about cigars helped him solve The Boscombe Valley Mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Let Us Recuse Ourselves Awhile | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Henry V has won him comparison to Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. As he did in the film, Branagh onstage would triple as impresario, director and star -- with the fillip of featuring his wife of five months, Emma Thompson, as Midsummer's willowy Helena and Lear's gnarled Fool. Despite the troupe's alphabetical billing, what was on offer was plainly a star turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dimming Shakespeare's Glories | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...were unmoved by China's modest gesture, and are likely to demand more concessions before restoring full ties. Michigan's William Broomfield, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, summed up the reaction when he called Beijing's announcement "more blue smoke and mirrors ((that)) would not fool anybody in Congress into believing that the Chinese leadership was moderating its oppressive rule." He might as well have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Blue Smoke and Mirrors | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...lack of prosecution means little in a country where the rich and powerful are perceived to be above the law. "It would take a first-class fool to testify against someone like Peping Cojuangco," explains Blas Ople, executive vice president of the opposition Nacionalista Party and a former Minister of Labor under Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Cory, Coups and Corruption | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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