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...Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart money in Seoul says if Roh can't work some magic in by-elections scheduled for Aug. 8, the MDP could dump him and try to woo Chung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cup Winner | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Jean-Christofe's pathology into narratives of the Beauchard family history. World War I and French Indochina scar the men, while the women are desperate for education to get off the farm. Their struggles mirror the Beauchard's battle with disease. When the author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields, you can see where the door opened for his mother's eventual absorption in ouija and spiritualism. At once the story of a family in crisis, a snapshot of the late-1960s, the diary of an artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning Art from Misery | 6/18/2002 | See Source »

...Price fetched for the front car of a Walt Disney World monorail--Disney auctioned it off last week as part of its "100 Years of Magic" celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jun. 17, 2002 | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Like Magic, Kidd has tremendous court vision, an uncanny ability to see all nine players from the top of the key in a half-court offense. If a teammate gets open, the ball will find him. On the fast break Kidd destroys defenses with perfectly angled passes. And unlike many All-Stars, he loves to play defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grownup Kidd | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...sings his version of the American Gothic. On Ralph Stanley, his first album for T Bone Burnett's DMZ Records, Ralph sings a tune called Mathie Grove, the tale of a husband who took his cheating wife and "cut off her head and kicked it against the wall." The magic is that Ralph has a voice that makes the grotesque sound matter-of-fact. When he sings, he's like a train whistle out of the past. At one point, Burnett asked him to sing a bit more like a rock 'n' roller. "He didn't really get it," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Real Man of Constant Sorrow | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

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