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...terms of talent and experience, Harvard, Penn and Princeton are the class of the league--the other five teams are really just competing for the middle of the pack," Leonard said...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Split Weekend Leaves Questions Unanswered For M. Hoopsters | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...games! I play a lot of them on my computer, and my current favorite is Age of Empires: the Rise of Rome (Microsoft; $24.95). The original game is more than a year old, but the "expansion pack" that was released a few months ago is shamefully addictive. It's a strategy game: you start out in the Stone Age, and if you manage your resources correctly--building armies, collecting wood, harvesting food--you can progress all the way to ancient Roman times. Just the right amount of strategy and terrific graphics of stuff blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favorite Things | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...offered to "snitch on lefties for the FBI," as an unsavory tabloid put it. Again, the baselessness of this charge can be quickly deduced from its failure to jibe with what we know of Francis Albert's character. Leaving aside for the moment the question of how the Rat Pack may have gotten its name, consider: If Frank Sinatra had been angry at communists, would he have sneakily tattled on them? Of course not. He and his pal Jilly Rizzo would have headed for the nearest saloon where the dirty reds hang out, picked out the smallest and beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ol' Black-and-Blue Eyes | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...with new classmates each school year. Hanks coped, adapted and later found a home in the impromptu family that is any company of actors. "To me it was the natural order of things, this willingness to go off and throw yourself into strange circumstances. I was never afraid to pack up and go off." And when he wasn't going off, he was looking up--at the stars. His obsession with the U.S. space program, which blossomed into Apollo 13 and his own HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, began here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...EVENING WITH THE RAT PACK (TV Land) This amazing artifact tape captures Sinatra, Martin and Davis in 1965, at the height of their joint fame. With Johnny Carson as emcee, the avatars of cool sing for typical burgher fans. Frank is a bit stiff, but Dean performs with oozing plushness, while Sammy winces at some racial cracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best of 1998 Television | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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