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With a melancholy sigh, Arcel insists: "Holmes doesn't really think that way. He's a very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're going to discourage a lot of people from going to the closed-circuit theaters. I wouldn't take my wife to this fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Puncher Goes for It: Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...have "superstars" on its Faculty--professors paid for national reputation rather than experience. While this policy may boost morale in the ranks of the Faculty, it invariably hinders Harvard's recruitment of top scholars, officials say. "We're competing against institutions that have star systems," says Gerrity with a sigh. "You find out when you go after that one person you want that he's a star, and his institution is either matching what we're offering or bettering it. They've just decided they're going to put their eggs in that one basket...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Faculty Salaries: A Red-Letter Year | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...allegedly aiding the insurgents. Any new U.S. offensive branding Nicaragua as a "Marxist aggressor" will meet with little backing after Nicaragua's outspoken support for Argentina. Reports one recent visitor to Nicaragua: "After the first shots were fired in the Falklands, you could almost hear a great sigh of relief coming from Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Sorrow Than Anger | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...guess I'll miss Taxi the most," Mary said, sighing her big sigh. "It was written by our writers-James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: R.I.P. the Honest Laugh | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...With a sigh that warns this is going to sound crazy, the celebrated Celtic backcourtman Bob Cousy declares: "In five years everyone will say it. But I'm ready to say it now. Larry Bird is the best player who ever played this foolish game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best the Game Offers | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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