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...when television is dominated by made-up competitions pitting brainless pretty people against other brainless pretty people--Fear Factor, Survivor, etc.--it is the brilliant uglies of the World Series who have provided some of the best human drama of the summer. On every episode, intelligence is rewarded, hubris is punished, millions of dollars change hands, and luck makes a cameo. Perhaps most shocking of all, people are watching. According to Nielsen ratings, World Series (ESPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) has averaged 1,248,000 viewers during its eight-week run, which ends with a grand finale...
Paule de Noinville is a survivor. She has lived through two world wars and, at 92, knows that death snatches people out of this world without pause. So looking back on the torturous heat wave that baked France in 40C (104F) temperatures in August, she is under no illusions about why she lived when over 10,000 others are thought to have died. It was not merely politics or fate that made the difference, she says. It was also simple human intervention: De Noinville was not left alone. "We in this home are just lucky we had excellent people caring...
...committed any malfeasance and whose major sin was hiding from them the seriousness of the problems ahead when he was running for re-election. On Monday, when Davis found himself in Chicago at an AFL-CIO convention with Bill Clinton, he privately sought the counsel of the master political survivor. As they talked for more than an hour at the Drake Hotel, Clinton (who has also been advising Feinstein) compared Davis' situation with his own during impeachment. The key, he told Davis, is to stay engaged and make sure voters see him every day on the job. Saturday's filing...
...ingredients and theatrics. But both trail Cold Stone in revenue and number of shops. Why? Ducey sets aggressive goals and then has his top managers--who hail from organizations like McDonald's--sprint after them. Cold Stone also knows how to mix up the mix-in, as in a Survivor-inspired promotion two years ago that combined ice cream with chocolate-dipped crickets. (The mixture was freakishly popular; the company ran out of supplies in a week...
...Hume Cronyn on the Craft of Acting In his career of more than 60 years, actor Hume Cronyn, who died last month [Milestones, June 30], portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from a shipwreck survivor in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat to a grumpy old man in the Cocoon comedies of the 1980s. He talked to TIME about acting as a profession in an April 2, 1990, article...