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On a trip to the now fallen Muslim village of Cerska earlier this month the general shocked others on the scene by saying he had not "smelled the odor of death" there. When he returned to the area last week, it was all around him. Serbian shells rained down, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Convert Among the Dying | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

The thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Floor of Dreams | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

"We played as well as you can play for two periods. We got a little ragged in the third, but overall it was a very good win," Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "One thing we really did very well was not giving up the central zone, clogging up the middle and...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Icemen Defeat Tenth-Ranked Yale | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

A fog rises this morning from the carcass of Sarajevo. The city has a clinging, ragged aura about it. Fog seeps through shattered buildings and seems to puff through the bullet holes in windows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ruin of a Cat, the Ghost of a Dog | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

So far, so good. Then I clambered up the steps of Widener. The library proved a much greater challenge. True, finding a book in the stacks requires no verbal communication. But the check-out process often does, especially when your book--stiff yellowed pages and a ragged binding--has no...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Make Some Noise, If You Can | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

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