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...April. But he won the U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes, the British Open by eight and the PGA in a playoff, becoming the first to win three of four majors in a season since Ben Hogan in 1953, and the youngest ever to complete a career grand slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...Liberals shouldn't expect too much, of course. Bush may not turn out to be as generous as his father, who delivered an inadvertent slam-dunk to liberals in the form of Justice David Souter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Supreme Court? | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

Margo, you're missing out. Great advances have been made in the field of throwing down recently. 5'4 Spud Webb won the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Slovenian guard Marko Milic once dunked over a Honda Del Sol. Vince Carter leaped over the head of a French seven-footer at the Olympics this past summer...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carol of the Bells: Stop Faking the Funk | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...human incarnation of God. As a playwright, Wojtyla makes a pretty good Pope. Xylophones dramatically rise and fall throughout the work, while somber monologues are interspersed with zany modern choreography, all at the playwright's suggestion. Originally written for Poland's underground Rhapsodic Theater, the poetry-slam-style high jinks are adorably dated, but they don't hold a candle to transubstantiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 4, 2000 | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: Family: All Grown Up And Home Alone | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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