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...with strangers and laughs a lot, but his bonhomie seems to come with effort. He is a private man who owns a private company. He dismisses as "mythology" the reputation that he and Fidelity have for Vatican-like secrecy. Yet when asked to describe himself, he gazes into his lap and says, "I'll take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A QUIET PASSION FOR PERFORMANCE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...usually pay much attention to politics--they have their hands full chronicling Sharon Stone's love life and following Madonna around with a camera--but when they do, they make it count. In 1987 the National Enquirer printed a photo of Donna Rice sitting on Gary Hart's lap, creating the most infamous visual epitaph for his crashed political career. Four years ago, the Star ran a story on Gennifer Flowers' alleged affair with Bill Clinton, throwing a major scare into his campaign just before the New Hampshire primary. And last week it was the Star's sensational account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW: IS THIS STORY TRUE? | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...lately talked of enacting some kind of stopgap legislation to keep Medicare solvent beyond 2001, which now looms as the year of bankruptcy, and then appointing a bipartisan commission to suggest long-term solutions. That sounds distressingly like a cop-out, a way to dump the problem into the lap of Clinton's successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE LEARNING CURVE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...METAPHORS] "Everything before has been a warm-up lap, a trial heat...In San Diego the real race begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

There was a wonderful tableau at the end of Thursday evening when Johnson beamed on the center medal platform as O'Brien, who had just completed his final event, the 1,500 m, ran a victory lap with the American flag. There they were, two men robbed by fate in '92, covered in the cheers of 80,000. When it came time for O'Brien to take the stand, he remembered he had left his warm-up suit behind. So he borrowed the suit of another man of similar height and weight. That's how Michael Johnson's track suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: DOUBLE FAST | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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