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...mother was the one who forced me to go out to practice, to jump rope when I didn't want to," says Mike. "I used to do a lot of trash talking on the court, and she said cut it out. I did. She is a wonderful person." While Mike freely talks about his mother, who never misses a game, he has little to say about his father and even refuses to take his calls or answer his letters. It didn't help matters when Henry became the U.S.C. coach in the middle of last season--Arizona and Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SONOFAGUN, HE'S BETTER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...awkward--even offensive--episode involving a clown-cum-high-wire artist. Falling into the net after a failed flip, the performer feigned wetting his pants (note the recurring urine theme) and said, inexplicably, "I don't speak English." He then pretended to go hand himself on a nearby rope. Parents in the audience must have been horrified...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: A Circus Maximus for All Ages | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...decide if this was the way I wanted to end my "living hell." Kay Weekley was a victim of a tragedy that has happened to others over and over again. I know the pain and I have the scars. Like her I had come to the end of my rope after a beating that left my body broken and traumatized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 20, 1997 | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...federal investigation and false reporting. Sawyer, 38, who faces a possible six-month jail term, was charged with obstruction of justice and is currently cooperating with police in their ongoing investigation of the leak. The photographs showed the garotte used to strangle six-year-old JonBenet, a rope tied to her wrist and a scene of her body lying in the Ramsey living room, where her father had carried her after finding her in the basement. The Globe, which had asked around to see who had developed the crime scene shots, agreed to return the photos on Tuesday now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploiting JonBenet | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

...nearing the end of my rope. The amount of money I have spent on transcripts probably exceeds the annual budget of some small countries. I have declared my marital status so many times that I am tempted to adopt a few kids just to make that question on dependents more interesting. And please, don't ask me for my Social Security number; I'm sure you can retrieve it from one of the hundreds of forms out there that have it neatly typed in the upper right-hand corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Humbling of the Harvard Man | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

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