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...years, at age 66, Smith was done. "I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball," an emotional Smith said at his farewell news conference Thursday afternoon. "It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well." Traveling, recruiting, giving speeches, signing autographs: the duties attendant to a working icon. Bill Guthridge, Smith's longtime assistant and likely successor, knew it too. "It's all the little things that wore Dean...
Already the book has drawn Kramer into an exchange with an outraged moral conservative in the pages of the New York Times. But for antidivorce activists to make Kramer an icon for modern self-indulgence would be to miss the mark. Beneath the book's air of moral relativism lies a low-key celebration of austerity, even a quiet, almost covert conservatism. The closest thing to a central message is the advice Kramer gives during one of the book's fictional case studies: "The problem is not your choice; the problem is how you live with that choice...
Like Hippocrates, Galen had become a medical icon, and it would take a bold idol smasher to undo him. History found the perfect candidate in Andreas Vesalius, a contentious young Flemish physician who, in his single-minded pursuit of the correct human anatomy, cared not a whit about Galen's untouchable authority. Gifted with intelligence, drive and the courage to stick with his convictions, he went his solitary way, dissecting cadaver after cadaver until he had made enough unbiased observations to write a book that would forever transform medicine's image of the human structure. Vesalius was 29 when...
...have lost not just a cultural icon but also a devoted humanitarian. The tragedy of Diana's death has united the people of the world like no other, if only for a fleeting and somber moment. CAROLINE ZARLENGO SPOSTO Memphis, Tenn...
...verdict? "It's a pretty well-paced, watchable show," he says. "Besides, that Irish angel is kind of hot." Stein recently joined our staff after two years as sports editor at Time Out New York, where he profiled WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes, thigh-mistress Suzanne Somers and that other icon of athleticism, Howard Stern. Stein seems perplexed by his welcome to TIME: "Everyone here is so nice; they say hi in the cafeteria." Stein has also contributed articles on weird Websites and video-game champions for TIME DIGITAL. He found a new commitment after writing this week's story...