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...been captured four years ago. To some locals, Dallas embodied all the old gunslinger's heroics. He had proved that he was a faster draw than the wardens, who, in this view, had no business invading his mountain camp to find out whether he was poaching game, a God-given right in the wilderness. Never mind that Dallas had pumped shots into the heads of both victims as they lay wounded on the ground. He managed to persuade a jury that he was guilty only of manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call of the Wild | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Unable to apply words to the serenity he feels now even in the face of Philadelphia's fierce Mike Schmidt, Gooden can say nothing more than "It's God-given." Seaver has no difficulty seeing the order in Gooden's pitching. "It's a lot more than natural, believe me," he says. "Let him have some time to find the words for it. It's enough for him to do these things at 21, he can explain them later." It has occurred to Gooden to ask himself, "Are you really this good?" But the answer is classified. "You shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...journalism or public relations, his vague image of an easy life. He is unsettled by the changes he sees in Roman Catholic tradition, epitomized by a closet-gay parish priest. When Delaney meets the Kabbelskis, Stanislaw's granddaughter Danielle seems, with her assured exoticism, the God-given answer to his yearnings. Hired by her father's thuggish security service, Delaney couples with Danielle while on the job and realizes he is being auditioned for a place in the family. When the Kabbelskis abruptly withdraw to plan their private Armageddon, Delaney wrecks his life pursuing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Betrayals a Family Madness by Thomas Keneally | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...third pitch, Brock strikes out, Gooden's 99th strikeout of the year in 93 innings. With 276 strikeouts last season, he blew by Grover Cleveland Alexander, Herb Score and every other rookie in history. "Am I going to hurt myself? It's all mechanics, I think, and it's God-given talent, I know." He calms everyone who frets for his young arm, seemingly every person he meets: "From high school on, even before that, I have always kept something warm on my arm late at night. I'm not afraid. I make sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nine Strikes and You're Out | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...newspapers have gone about litigating news issues. They have litigated them in the highest toned rhetoric of the First Amendment, which when you ask them what do they mean by it, a lot of journalists have a lot of trouble saying what they mean. They have asserted some God-given right not to turn over outtakes, which still evades me... They've asserted a reporter's source privilege in terms that I think could be--I think you can legitimately defend a reporter's source privilege--but in fact the press advanced it in the most incredibly high-toned terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Amendment Under Fire | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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