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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second family is the Ranger teammates, who mobbed him after the no-hitter. Because some of them were barely in Pampers when Ryan first pitched for the Mets in 1966, the scene also suggested a Father's Day celebration -- a bunch of baseball's children swarming around the , grandest old man in the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: An Old-Timer for All Seasons | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

When the news of Poindexter's sentence ran through the capital, some of his former White House colleagues were in black tie at the President's Dinner, the Republican Party's grandest Washington fund raiser. "I felt sick," said one. "There was not a criminal bone in his body. He was doing what he thought his Commander in Chief wanted. He got a jail term for political incompetence. Since when is that a felony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: His Failure Was Political | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

They are the "two grandest villains... with over $300 million and $140 million, respectively, still invested inSouth Africa," she said. Harvard currently followsa policy of selective divestment, which involvesselling its stocks in South Africa relatedcompanies with poor records in dealing with Blackemployees...

Author: By Fffie K. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Students Join Divestment Coalition | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

...mind is the grandest, most mysterious fractal. It takes its shape from what it holds, and therefore, Zen-like, sometimes grows more graceful because of what it has kept...

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

...Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenneth Feld: Lord of The Rings | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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