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...could only dream of a Jesse Ventura in my state. The politicians I get to choose from are either Bible-thumping Republicans hell-bent on a theocracy or Democrats who want to solve everybody's problems with my tax dollars. A Libertarian couldn't get anybody's attention here if he were to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. I wish those scientists would start cloning this guy--and soon. JOHN F. SCHULLER Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...social creatures, not born administrators. It's nicely P.C. to think of God as female, but no woman would have thrown Lucifer out of heaven; she would have offered him a desk job. Had Lucifer been a woman, she would have dropped all that "myself am hell" business and taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Friendships of Men | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Those Grimm boys moved their plots along like rockets. Today, they'd no doubt be writing screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer. In this action-packed tale, a young man is saved from imminent death twice and then has to go to hell and back--no, really--to win the hand of the princess he loves. The religious right may not like the sympathetic portrayal of the devil's granny, but no one can fault the charming illustrations or the happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children's Books: A Readable Feast | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Charles Lindbergh. They walked down my aisle asking men what they were doing. I was working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing--I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindbergh with my new boss, coming to shake my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...problem was that for too long they worked on only one model. Although people told him to diversify, Henry Ford had developed tunnel vision. He basically started saying "to hell with the customer," who can have any color as long as it's black. He didn't bring out a new design until the Model A in '27, and by then GM was gaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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