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...Bush stayed home and didn't open the door, he didn't slam it either. He left it ajar and started flirting. The G.O.P. moneymen are a skittish lot: they love a winner, hate being left behind, and once a bunch start to go, the rest tend to follow. This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Chose George Bush? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

STEFFI GRAF In comeback, German ace gets the French to cheer her with her first Grand Slam title since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...surface and interior, Lunar Prospector is running out of fuel, and is expected to crash at the end of July. Rather than just let it go, however, NASA decided to give the satellite a final mission: to take aim at a crater near the moon's south pole and slam into it at 3,600 M.P.H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satellite | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...modest fellow whose noble consideration for his opponents was equaled only by the cruel ease with which he vanquished them. Jones won an unprecedented (and still unmatched) 13 major golf championships in a brief seven years, culminating in his 1930 sweep of all four majors, the only Grand Slam in the game's history. And then, still an amateur and determined to remain one, he retired, at 28. From that day forward, Jones played competitively only once a year--at the tournament he invented on the course he co-designed: the Masters at Augusta National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Most Influential Athletes Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Although the season ended for Harvard, Blake was not done. He was seeded No. 1 for the NCAA Singles Championships--the fourth and final leg of the grand slam--and No.3 with Majmudar in the doubles competition...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Atheletes of the Year | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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