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...Socially, sometimes women's rugby gets a bad rap, but every year that I've been here, Radcliffe has become more and more serious about rugby as a sport," Esty says. "I think it's because we've done so well that we've been taken more seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offbeat Sports Attract Team Players but Not Fans | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

...November 6, two months after rap superstar Tupac Shakur died in a storm of bullets while driving with his record-company owner, Marion ("Suge") Knight, Sergeant Kevin Manning of the Las Vegas police turned on his television to find Knight chatting with a correspondent for ABC. "If you knew who killed Tupac," asked the reporter, "would you tell the police?" "Absolutely not," answered Knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Patient brought David Lean-like scope and passion back to the Cineplex. Still laboring under Khomeini's fatwa, Salman Rushdie produced what may be his greatest novel. A rock update of La Boheme brought the Broadway musical resoundingly into the '90s. The Fugees proved you can sell millions of rap records without gangsta's toxicity, while Tiger Woods broadened golf's horizons simply by showing up. And Jerry Seinfeld stayed funny, defying sitcomic entropy. So here's to the men and women who spat in mediocrity's eye and made us believe in forward progress--the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...Fugees The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia). Tough but tuneful, ready to entertain but unwilling to compromise, this Haitian-American rap trio proved that positive, semipolitical hip-hop could outsell gangsta rap--and alternative rock too. Drawing from reggae and soul, the Fugees created a fresh bicultural sound as bright as the Caribbean and as blunt as New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...tale 2,700 years old that some would argue is the mother of all novels. In recounting Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, Fagles finds a contemporary English style that beckons to the ear as well as the eye. Rewardingly for an age so often rendered in rap and heavy metal, he makes Homer sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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