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I put the truck in reverse and tried again. For some reason, perhaps the noise and fumes, I forgot that I had done all that damage with the engine turned off and decided I had been going too slow. Also, as I was approaching the ramp, I misinterpreted Dennis' signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

The first time was uneventful. I was too scared to drive the boat for more than five minutes, but I tried to glean wisdom by listening. The second person to take me sailing was a concert pianist in his mid-30s. After praising my nascent sailing ability, he asked to...

Author: By Laura K. Cobb, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Learning To Sail | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

There have been other memorable moments too. When I went whitewater rafting, I fell off the raft and into a hydraulic for the first time. I was scared out of my mind—“Get into a ball!” was all I could think as...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHATTANOOGA, TENN.: Living Alone | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

So Cincinnati is a place where even the authorities--black and white--suspect that authority works against them. In a city where even fellow officers don't entirely trust one another, no wonder mere citizens raise their antennae during police encounters. Reports of racial profiling have taught many of us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Race Got To Do With It? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

By then, Katharine Graham was the most powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek--which Phil had acquired in 1961--and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Of Substance: KATHARINE GRAHAM (1917-2001) | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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