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...team which will emerge from the American League is Cleveland. Remember how Seattle almost beat them in 1995? A similar thing will happen in their epic seven-game series. Ken Griffey, Jr., will drop a routine fly ball in the ninth inning of the decisive game. Phil Knight weeps bitter tears...

Author: By Bryan S.lee, | Title: Spring Has Sprung, So Let There Be Baseball | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...feed on itself. In 1994 Shakur was shot outside a New York City recording studio being used by Wallace and Sean "Puffy" Combs, the head of Wallace's record label, Bad Boy Entertainment. Shakur survived and accused Wallace and Combs of being involved in the attack. In 1995 Suge Knight, the controversial head of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records (now serving nine years in prison for violating probation on an assault conviction), lured Shakur to his label in part by playing up the tensions between East Coast rappers (like Wallace) and West Coast rappers (like Shakur). Later, when Shakur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...around him. In the Los Angeles Times, an anonymous Democratic fund raiser insisted that D.N.C. finance chairman Marvin Rosen simply told fund raisers to tell donors that $50,000 would get them into a White House coffee. Another memo in the Ickes documents, this one signed by Peter Knight, the President's campaign manager, calculates that $500,000 could be expected from a forthcoming White House coffee for 10 Texas donors, which he calls a "fund raiser." All 10 were hit in the weeks that followed but gave only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Move 16 is when Deeper Blue pauses to "think." Finally, its human monitor announces, "F4." F4? An excited buzz sweeps the room. F4! Deeper Blue has advanced the knight's pawn two squares, loosening its kingside defense with an assumption of the superiority of its position that would surely be considered arrogant if a carbon-based life-form were making it. "This move was special," murmurs Joel Benjamin, a former U.S. champion and current Deep Blue consultant. The room nods in agreement. Deeper Blue is thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPER IN THOUGHT | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Word play figures heavily into all cartoons, and some puns are so bad they're funny, like the placard in the medieval spoof "Knighty Knight Bugs" naming one character "Sir Osis of Liver...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: The Story of One Rabbit's Struggle | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

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