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...Oklahoma City bombing victims have my deepest sympathy, I cannot help shuddering at the inhumanity displayed by the people who cheered when McVeigh was sentenced to death. This showed they are capable of the same anger and desire to take a life. Are we no better than he is? JEFF GEBAUER Dubuque, Iowa

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1997 | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...dance mecca lures a thousand free-spending hipsters a night at 80 yuan ($10) a head. Amid flashing lasers, throbbing strobes, wafts of colored fog, Guangzhou's young and rich pulsate to the pounding, 200-decibel beat of Western rap. "Politics?" hoots an 18-year-old who calls himself Jeff. "We come here to play." "Politics!" laughs his sister, 22, swiveling and shimmying. "I just want to relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE CHINA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...Congress has embraced contrition chic. A formal apology for slavery would certainly teach Jeff Davis a thing or two. But would the ghost of John Calhoun materialize in the well of the Senate to filibuster against it? There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All the remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAMA MIA, THAT'S A MEA CULPA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...Johnson reminded us of Jesse Owens, Amy van Dyken of Eleanor Holm and Kerri Strug of Sergeant York. Loathe him or merely dislike him, we shake our heads in wonder over the crossover talents of Deion Sanders. Appreciate 'em if you got 'em: Evander Holyfield, Pete Sampras, Brett Favre, Jeff Gordon. Maybe Silver Charm lost by three-quarters of a length the other day because a Triple Crown would have been asking for too much in a time when almost every sport can touch gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIKE, AND THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

This is not entirely his fault. The screenwriters, Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, and the director, Jan de Bont, have no interest in providing their actors with stuff to act. Their job is to keep the whammos coming. Our job is to sit there, absorb the blows and pretend to like their cold expertise. With De Bont's quick wit and tense minimalism on the first Speed still fresh in mind, that's hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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