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...Everyone else made their [running-mate] decisions with the sole purpose of garnering votes," said the presidential candidate from Salt Lake City, who enjoys fishing and target shooting ("not animals!") in his spare time...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert and David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Leonard-Tenney | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...reform proposals: keeping IOC members from making financially tempting visits to cities looking to host the games. Many reluctant members grumbled that such a ban implied they couldn't be trusted, although one might think that the haul that several of their former colleagues extorted out of the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee - which included silver, scholarships for their kids, guns, cowboy hats, skis and, reportedly, even call girls - would have done a good job of that already. In the end, Samaranch prevailed: Although the move had been opposed by nearly half of the IOC's 93 voting delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Hosting Is No Longer a Contact Sport | 12/12/1999 | See Source »

...response to a proposition to make him a candidate for an illustrious Harvard accolade, George Bernard Shaw offers a modest proposal: "If Harvard would celebrate its 300th anniversary by burning itself to the ground and sowing its site with salt, the ceremony would give me the greatest satisfaction...

Author: By A. VAN Der zee, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: From The File: War At Harvard | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...Orleans 2 Cleveland 3 Grand Rapids 4 Long Island, New York 5 Milwaukee 6 Norfolk 7 Rochester 8 Tampa 9 Orlando 10 Chicago 11 Riverside 12 Detroit 13 Salt Lake City 14 Minneapolis 15 West Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...mannequin of a rather worn-looking camel by Nancy Graves through documentary photos of Chris Burden after a self-inflicted gun wound to a film of Robert Smithson running along the rocky ground of his massive and most famous earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), which juts into Utah's Great Salt Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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