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...powerhouse, winning four national titles and France's only pro European crown. His popularity allowed him to launch a political career that peaked with election to Parliament in 1989 and a 1992 appointment as Urban Affairs Minister. But legal authorities investigating Tapie's businesses uncovered evidence of fraud, embezzle-ment and tax evasion - including financial irregularities at OM. Shortly before prison doors slammed behind him in 1997, new investors bought the humiliated and financially ruined OM. Despite invest-ments of $125 million since - mostly on new talent - OM stands at the brink of relegation and fans are furious. In desperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Encore, Encore! | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...violence, including homicide, is on the decline. A report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that from 1991 to '97, the number of 9th-to-12th-graders who packed a weapon fell from 26% to 18%; those involved in a fight and needing treat-ment by a doctor or nurse dipped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Family: Aug. 16, 1999 | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...government spending, contrary to the doomsday scenarios that haunted us following the budget deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, as of last week, for the first time since 1969, the government will take in more money than it spends. Ross Perot's sky-is-falling rants about guv'ment irresponsibility of six years ago now seem almost cute--like a real-life Chicken Little...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: News Through the Looking Glass | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...goes a lot farther than just [ethnic] identity," said Campos, explaining that RAZA--which immediately mobilized to uphold Harvard's ban on grapes--worked with the Progressive Student Labor Move- ment, UNITE! and Education 4 Action during thedebate...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Personal Politics | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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