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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The admission of Nelson as a Church of Scotland minister and candidate for full ordination has touched off a passionate and painful controversy throughout the nation. Over the past several months, hundreds of letters have filled the columns of Scottish newspapers, debating whether God's forgiveness means that even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Straining the Quality of Mercy | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

When the Montreal excitement did not take, he perversely turned the early race into the most predictable event in track, until that became its own kind of drama. Moses won ten races in a row, then 20. "When I got to about 30 or 35, I remember saying to myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Star-Spangled Home Team | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

Once a physics major at Morehouse College in Atlanta, he tried an office job several years ago, designing weapons systems for the Navy, and lasted about six months. He says, "I look at track from an artistic as well as a business point of view. It's more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Star-Spangled Home Team | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

One source of income for a first-class track-and-field athlete is appearance money. A star of the magnitude of Lewis, Edwin Moses or Mary Decker can ask for and get up to $15,000 a meet just to show up. In Europe, appearance fees are openly paid. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Just Off Center Stage | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

It is not only athletes and coaches who are tired of such pointless fakery. "To ignore reality is stupid, and that's what we're doing," says Robert Helmick, a Des Moines lawyer who is a vice president of the U.S.O.C. Helmick also points out, however, that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Just Off Center Stage | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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