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...Darkness, he seemed sapped and uninspired. The sport's most explosive jumper, he failed to awe the audience as he so often does. Although a master of the four-revolution jump (he was the first skater to land a quad-triple combination in competition), he couldn't muster the fortitude to show one off in Nagano. Moreover, he was sloppy in landing a triple loop, normally an easy move for him. Stojko had hoped to break the "Canada curse" and win for his country its first gold medal in men's figure skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Look Who's Standing | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Jefferson, one of America's great university men, studied fifteen hours a day as an undergraduate. One must wonder if campus activists would label him "apathetic." One need not wonder to know Jefferson would join most Harvard students in giving one cheer for apathy. (We are too apathetic to muster the other two cheers...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: One Cheer for Apathy | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...countries will continue." Despite the good feelings, the results remain the same: No U.S. strike aircraft will fly out of Saudi bases. Cohen did say he expected the Saudis to at least allow support planes on their airstrips. En route to Kuwait, he told reporters it's harder to muster support when Saddam isn't "raping and pillaging and setting oil wells on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Round of Gulf | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...shocking defeat, the Princeton Tigers proved to be just too powerful for the Crimson. Losing by a 7-2 margin, the only two victories Harvard could muster were from its No. 8 and No. 9 players, junior Vanessa Hoermann and freshman Virginia Brown. HARVARD 5 PENN 4 HARVARD 2 PRINCETON...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Squash Finally Falls | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

...there was really only one person who could muster the troops, just as she had in Arkansas in 1980, in New Hampshire in 1992 and in the Executive Residence in 1994, when the Democratic Party died. By Thursday, Hillary was putting together a new, combative team. She wondered if her old, ousted alter ego Harold Ickes could come back, and she added Mickey Kantor to the legal team, more for his political skills than his legal ones. Adviser Sid Blumenthal created a gigantic diagram inside his office outlining with circles and arrows the byzantine Republican conspiracy surrounding the tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Truth or...Consequences | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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