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...Which brings us back to Colby. That resentment, that challenge-winner's curse, had the cowboy on the ropes for a while. But after eighteen (or is it nineteen?) consecutive challenge victories, Colby looks to have outran and outlasted the curse, and the betting here is that resentment or not, the jury has probably come around to the fact that without a schemer-in-chief to take the Machiavelli prize this season, the man deserves the million on physical and mental prowess alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colby, Keith or Tina? | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

Edmund Wilson was thinking about sex. He often did. But in the nineteen sixties, toward the end of his life, his inexhaustible libido was getting exhausted. He confided to his notebook that he was astonished at all the time, intensity, effort, and emotional turmoil he had poured into the business of pursuing and bedding women. For most of his life, Wilson had been a sexually frisky, not to say omnivorous lover. This seemed improbable for a man shaped like a beachball, given to drinking whole fifths of scotch, and capable of astonishing feats of free-lance erudition that made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Promiscuity of the Media Has Made the News Boring | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...Nineteen forty-eight, like 1968, was an annus mirabilis. Was 2000 an annus mirabilis? No. It should have been, but it lacked the energy to live up to its millennial expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was a Very Good Year | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

...Nineteen is the most wonderful age there is (or at least the most wonderful of the ages I've experienced), in that you can be as mature or childish as you want and yet retain full legitimacy. Socially, you're old enough to drive anywhere, participate in most every activity and go to lots of clubs; you may look old enough to be in bars, and therefore probably enjoy those...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editorial Notebook: Turning 20 | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...days and nineteen events later, however, only Princeton emerged with bragging rights intact. Harvard lost to Princeton 197-156 but beat Yale solidly with a final score...

Author: By Susan M. Brunka and Michael C. Sabala, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: M. Swimming Dunks Yale, Falls to Princeton | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

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