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Perez's army career wasn't supposed to turn out like this. A child of Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the grandson of four Mexican immigrants, Perez had seen a stint in the Army--safely in the rear--as his ticket to college. When he enlisted in 1991, his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soldier: Sudden Warrior | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

Some politicians can use weaponry to look cool--remember Yeltsin on a tank? But at a recent reception in a supporter's house in Atlanta, the strategy backfired on campaigning Republican Representative BOB BARR of Georgia. A National Rifle Association board member and gun-safety advocate, Barr was inspecting a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 19, 2002 | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

When he is onstage, Springsteen says, he sometimes feels like a preacher, and on the last E Street Band tour, he did a mock monologue in a fire-and-brimstone voice about the power of music. "It was one of those things that was joking but serious at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Rising | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

Being a gifted populist artist as well as (his word) a "tittenfilmer," Meyer didn't simply display acres of swollen flesh; he vigorously tilled that fertile field. His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy, exhorting their pale male swains to "Strap me on!" Meyer's oeuvre was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

Dolman buys the last round for the group, who are roudily and good-naturedly joking with Berry, reminiscing on the old Grafton days, and gossiping about the more recent opening night party, to which Berry had invited them.

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grafton Street Reopens Doors, Draws Back Regulars | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

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