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Home is where the heart is for the Cards' Lawless, the Twins' Gladden and all the heroic mystery guests at the World Series...
...world's best coverage of the other superpower, from the cover story on 1939 Man of the Year Joseph Stalin to last July's cover on the domestic and foreign policy reforms of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Our list of firsts is, as the Soviets would say, heroic. In 1970 Time Inc. published exclusive excerpts from the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, edited and translated by Strobe Talbott, who is now this magazine's Washington bureau chief. In 1979 TIME published a rare private interview with then Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. In August 1985 Gorbachev chose TIME as the medium...
...only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world, but which virtually demands a re-evaluation of the nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast, how could any list of the century's greatest events include Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic? Heroic though it was, symbolic though it was, the flight was one of those massively hyped events by which the America of the 1920s celebrated its excitement at being itself...
...greeted on arrival with -- surprise! -- a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In by the Olympia Brass and Funeral Band. Despite that lively welcome, the crowds that viewed the Pontiff were smaller than expected. After paying tribute at St. Louis Cathedral to local priests and sisters for their "heroic dedication," he traveled to the famed Superdome. There, at a meeting with black Catholics, Bishop Joseph Howze of Biloxi, Miss., told John Paul that "racism is a major hindrance to full development of black leadership within the church." John Paul responded that racial diversity shows that Christ's "liberating Gospel...
...cruelty and loathsomeness, but she does so from an intriguing, unsettling perspective. Her heroine is Sethe, who has run away from her Kentucky master and settled with her mother-in-law on the outskirts of Cincinnati. The details of Sethe's break for freedom are appropriately heroic. Pregnant with her fourth child and apparently abandoned at the last moment by her husband and fellow slave Halle, she nonetheless manages to send her three children ahead of her in a wagon bound for Ohio and then arrives there herself in 1855, after giving birth to her daughter Denver...