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Athenians of the 5th century B.C. attended plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Londoners in Elizabethan England enjoyed the plays of Shakespeare. Americans in the 21st century watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Survivor. Does anyone else find this disturbing and frightening? (THE REV.) FRANK L. HOSS Bourbonnais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 17, 2000 | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...bill as is. And you also said you'd repeal the Clinton tax increases and expand the earned-income tax credit to reach more people. No disrespect meant to the office of the Governor of Texas, but to put it bluntly, How are you gonna pay for it, Hoss? If you did a little "blow" 25 years ago, that's your business. But if you blow our prosperity in the next 25 months, that's our business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Say No | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...mind, and parents might spend fewer nights agonizing about whether their children were overburdened or understimulated by homework. Of course, the debate over national standards is a complex one, and cramming for a national test could mean more mindless at-home drudgery for kids. But not necessarily. When Taylor Hoss, 10, of Vancouver, Wash., came home last year with packets of extra homework assigned in preparation for the state's new mandatory assessment exams, his parents shuddered. But as they worked through the test-prep material, the Hosses were pleased with the degree of critical thinking the questions required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...Steve Hoss, the drummer, delivered the surprise of the evening. Hoss had flown to Rochester earlier that day to teach and returned to Boston for the concert before traveling to Europe for another show. His passionate playing contained sounds reminiscent of the same African drumbeats that lead to the beginnings of jazz. Lonnie Plaxico on bass, who had lost his waist-length dreds for a shaved look, rounded off the quartet...

Author: By Nicole A. Lopez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Coltrane Tradition | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...dammit, if you wind up any given season with no wins or an ERA over 6.00, you don't deserve to stay up. If that means That each major league staff is reduced to six or seven pitchers, so be it. A guy named Old Hoss Radbourne once threw five complete games in a six-day span just before the turn of the century, so don't tell me that Roger Clemens' arm can't function without four days' rest...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Scoring Glut | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

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