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...game last week, seven-year-old Michael Foster spent an hour with Griffey through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, tossing a ball around and touring the clubhouse. But at one point, when Foster mustered the courage to ask, "Are you going to break the record?" Griffey responded with a shrug. Clearly, his no comments need some work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...stuff unsuspecting audiences full of identity politics (the oppression of Gypsy women under late capitalism, say), Assaf was content to interpret the world's most popular opera as a straightforward tale of love and death. "It's a story, it's music, it's movement," she says with a shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carmen, the MTV Diva | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...from flight delays and air turbulence, with my rusty French I tried to convey to the unsympathetic baggage retrieval workers that I desperately needed my suitcases. I filled out my address, identified my luggage from a chart of pocketbooks, duffel bags and suitcases and was sent home with a shrug and callous wait-and-see attitude. I remained cool for the first 24 hours, fully confident that the system would work--that the combination of my clearly printed name on the suitcases as well as those white and black flight markers would somehow guide my luggage home. I joked with...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM PARIS | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...they know anything about Feaster, thereporters will simply shrug it off.NBA PhotosCharles Smith...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Feaster Takes W. Hoops to Next Level | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...didn't Apple do something this bold before? Apple board member William Campbell, CEO of Intuit, says the answer is simple: "They didn't have Steve." Jobs is for once uncharacteristically modest. "A crisis," he says with a shrug, "is a wonderful time to make some changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's New Crop | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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