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Arkady Gaydamak, the enigmatic Israeli-Russian billionaire, thought he had his campaign for mayor of Jerusalem all gamed out. He was hoping that a win by his Beitar football team last week would boost his chances in the Nov. 11 vote. Indeed, Beitar started strong against rivals Ha'poel from Tel Aviv. Twice, his players sprinted up field, shaking off defenders to take cannonball shots at the goal, but twice the ball struck the crossbar. Beitar was scoreless. Then, in the last six minutes of the game, Ha'poel drilled in two goals. The Jerusalem fans left in a foul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...resurrection of supply-side economic theory, and you get a concoction that is fit only for the 1980s. Times have changed but apparently not the G.O.P. The disastrous effects of 12 years of Reagan and Bush administrations on the economy seem to be easily forgotten. KLAAS B. VAN DER POEL St. Jean de Muzols, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Her other films included Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel, who cast her in his 1912 Covent Garden production of Troilus and Cressida. Continuing to act until shortly before her death, Evans once remarked that she had always desired "a job I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...idea was, instead of a drunken cocktail party, lo have a poetry reading," explained Poel Allen Ginsberg. The grizzled guru of the '60s then sat down cross-legged before a Manhattan audience of some 200 to celebrate his new book, Allen Verbatim, in verse with harmonium accompaniment Afterward, when asked what he considered the role of the modern poet to be, the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry replied with a new work titled "Ego Confession." "I want to be known as the most brilliant man on earth," said Ginsberg, "who overthrew the CIA with silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 18, 1974 | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...proved that this spiritual unity did not exist from the beginning, he says, the church might in certain cases be able to declare the marriage null and void. Still another approach is taken by three Dutch theologians, Fathers B. Peters, T. Beemer and C. van der Poel, writing in a recent issue of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. They suggest that even if second marriages cannot be regularized, Catholics who otherwise display evidence of contrition and strong faith might be admitted to the sacraments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Second Thoughts on Second Marriages | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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