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After two bitter rivals play a hard-fought game, each side usually spends the off-season staring at the schedule, anxiously anticipating the next meeting.

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Jumbos Visit Ruggers | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

This time, Erdrich goes to the sources of her saga's bloodlines. Nanapush, a Chippewa elder born in 1862, begins with a stark account of an epidemic that devastated his people during the winter of 1912. "Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloodlines Tracks | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

The outline of an island is visible on the sea. An old Spitfire runway has been commandeered by a wing of gulls. Their strafing missions are conducted over a neglected lighthouse. All in all, quite beautiful. Still, it's easy to see how Tom Watson was able to close with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Jonathan Noel, 53, has been a bank guard in Paris for some 30 years. He imagines that by the time he retires, he will "assuredly be the one person in all Paris -- perhaps even in all France -- who had stood the longest time in just one place." This suits Jonathan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends People Like Us | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

The studio audience at the Tonight show in Burbank is strangely silent, staring intently at the proceedings on the stage. A shirtless volunteer lies face up on a table, behind which stands a short, balding man with a fringe of white hair, a bushy beard and piercing green eyes. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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