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...America's greatest attributes is its ability to foster and nurture competing conceptions of the good life. The hardest part for many of us, however, is trying to figure out just what the good life is. The other day, a friend of mine claimed to have figured it out: "College is the good life," he proclaimed...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: College: The Selfish Life | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Soros, have big stakes in metals-mining operations. And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been talking about either inflation or deflation at various times in the past few months. Either one could knock the stock market for a loop, and Buffett's highfliers probably would be among the hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffett's Silver Streak | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Kwan knows what it is to lose control. The previous season was one of the hardest for her. She lost three major championships, including her national and world titles, in the space of two months. The defeats devastated her. Losing the nationals a year ago was the bitterest of all. She was the favorite for the gold medal, but a few minutes into her long program, she found herself sprawled on the ice after slipping out of a jump. After the first fall came another; then she had to put a hand down on the ice to steady herself after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Figure Skating: Michelle Kwan: Amazing Grace | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...wrestled at the same weight the whole time I've been here," Volpe said. "The new weigh-in rules definitely help the level of competition in the matches. On the whole, you're going to see much better wrestling. The last two or three pounds are the hardest to lose. They seem to take...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...description of this horrid disease [ESSAY, Jan. 12]. Being with my mother is like encountering 10 different people at the same time. Which one will be at the other end of the exchange? The nasty one? The childlike one? The confused one? The hostile one? The loving one? Or, hardest of all, the one who seems as if she is the same sweet person I have always known? For whatever consolation it is, I believe that her awareness of pain flees as quickly as rational thought. But the pain for those of us who watch the process is unending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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