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...Reported by Stella Kim/Seoul
...civilian president, Kim Young-sam, won power in 1992. It was Kim who began the reforms that led to the trial and conviction of the two former presidents. Roh's attorneys are expected to appeal his sentence, and an appeal of Chun's death sentence is automatic. TIME's Stella Kim reports from Seoul that there is widespread speculation that President Kim may offer both men some form of clemency after the appeals process plays out, probably in mid-1997. President Kim must weigh the effect on public opinion of clemency or pardon, TIME's Kim notes, because his party...
...little time. The 100-m dash is at once the shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure...
...very first track event for women--with a time of 12.2 sec. What made Robinson's victory so remarkable was that the Olympics was only her fourth track meet. The 1932 winner was Stanislawa Walasiewicz of Poland, who was better known in the U.S., her second country, as Stella Walsh. According to an official, Walsh ran "with long, manlike strides." The reason for that became clear some 48 years later when Walsh, an innocent bystander, was killed in a robbery attempt in Cleveland. An autopsy revealed she was actually...
...paperback, vividly remembers coming upon Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye (1969): "When I finished that book, I had all the permission I needed to become a writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back, remembers being inspired by Morrison's books in school and then sensing, once her own work began to be published, that the elder author was not offering her much encouragement. (They write, to put it mildly, dissimilar fiction; Morrison is about as close to Faulkner...