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...fall in love with her," says McGraw. "I just got lucky that she felt the same way." One day, before his set, McGraw asked her to marry him and then headed off to the stage. When he came back, she had written her answer on the mirror in his trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tennessee Two-Step | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...reelection for his Senate seat -- an accommodation engineered by Hatch?s own supporters a while back -? so he?s got nothing to lose. And of course, ego had not a little to do with it. "There?s a saying," says Carney, "that every senator wakes up, looks in the mirror and sees a president." Orrin Hatch is going to need the campaign trail to open up and swallow his competition before that happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Orrin Is Throwing His Hatch in the Ring | 6/23/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the industry, one of the most popular ideas, at least for now, is to have practically no manager at all. Nearly one out of every five new investment dollars is now going into low-cost index funds, which automatically mirror the performance of benchmarks like the Standard & Poor's 500. Already this year $18 billion has flooded into Vanguard, the behemoth that pioneered the practice. Says John Rekenthaler of funds researcher Morningstar. "Indexing is an ongoing challenge that most of the competition is not facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutual Fund Meltdown | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: England, England | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...whole, however, several people, bothcurrent and former students, say HLS' problems--oflarge classes, a distant faculty and a cutthroatatmosphere--simply mirror similar ones on theundergraduate level...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Prestige Chase | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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