Word: helm
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...played the instrument of TIME with panache, style and virtuosity. In his three years at the helm of our flagship, Gaines has given TIME both energy and purpose, and his keen nose for news and for talent have made a great magazine even greater. Many of his covers will live long after their issue dates: the 20th Century Blues, the Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently...
...news on the water. Murdoch, an avid sailor, helped Oracle CEO Larry Ellison win Australia's most prestigious yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom and was whisked away to the hospital. A quick piece of plastic surgery later, he was fine, to the great relief...
...BRUINS FROM THE RUINS 1975. John Wooden's final season at the helm. That's when ucla last won a national basketball title. Twenty years and six coaches later, Jim Harrick's Bruins defeated defending champion Arkansas despite the absence of star guard Tyus Edney. Making victory even sweeter was the presence at the Seattle finals of the 84-year-old Wooden...
...assassination is not the work of a lone lunatic. As the peace process marched on, Prime Minister Rabin at its helm, radical rightist elements began to abandon any pretense of respecting the authority of the Labor government. Rabin the traitor--not only to the Jewish state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that...
...communities" was fired from his job as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P. has to show for Chavis' 16 months at the helm is a $4 million deficit and an uncertain future. If Chavis wants to devote himself to a cause, it should be repaying the N.A.A.C.P. for the damage he's done...