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...comet fever; Halley's had come to town. For several weeks we endured arctic temperatures, looking skyward until our necks were sore. Everyone ooed and ahhed, and I think I was the only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn't see the blob again for 75 years...
...invoke the kind of Big Ideas that millennial thinking seems to demand, he scribbled revisions in his text right down to the wire. After attending a church service with his family, and basking in the oratory of Jesse Jackson, the President headed down to the ceremony on a frigid and overcast morning. As if on cue, the winter sun broke through the clouds just moments before the President raised his right hand, placed his left on a well-worn family Bible held by his wife, and took the oath of office. In his 25-minute speech, Clinton brushed over specifics...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin's bout of pneumonia may be nothing more than what his press aides claim: an illness that will be gone in a week or two, a mere worsening of the flu that has gripped 64,000 Muscovites during this frigid winter. But as TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge notes, the latest medical emergency only underlines a sobering reality, that the Boris Yeltsin of today is a pale shadow of the dynamic leader of 1992. While Yeltsin continues to represent stability in Russia to his supporters at home and admirers abroad, the vigorous President Yeltsin they...
...many lay people would have recognized the name, since relatively few ordinary citizens read the publications of the funeral industry--with their ads for Eterna-Cribs, Frigid Fluid body bags, Velvetone Arterial solution and Hydrol Tissue Builder--in which Loewen and its competitors had long been subjects of debate. O'Keefe, however, knew Loewen and knew full well it was no mere partner. "That was a lie and a subterfuge," he says. When Loewen went on to buy another nearby funeral home and in the process intruded on a long-standing contract between that home and O'Keefe, O'Keefe...
...setting over this frigid, high tension duel, Winthrop proceeded to find the back of the net on all five shootout attempts...