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...miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches, wines that one can endlessly drink without getting drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Holy War of Words | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

Maura Scalise, Harvard women's swimming coach, called this weekend's triumph at the Easterns in Princeton, N.J. the "sweetest victory" in her seven years at the helm. In the two-day meet, the Crimson defeated not only Princeton, this year's Ivy League champion, but also 25 other teams, including non-Ivy competitors. In doing so, Harvard broke several school records and many swimmers achieved personal best times...

Author: By Katy Schmid, | Title: Aquawomen Capture 5th Eastern Championship | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Maniac Mansion (Family Channel). Dad (Joe Flaherty) is an amiably incompetent inventor, his four-year-old son is a hulking six-footer and Uncle Harry is a housefly. From such nonsense a group of SCTV alums have fashioned the looniest, sweetest family comedy of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: TV | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...Sweetest Revenge for a Naysayer Marvin Roffman, a gambling-industry analyst, was fired by his spineless firm, Janney Montgomery Scott, after Donald Trump threatened to sue the firm because Roffman predicted the demise of the high roller's $1 billion Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Just eight months later, the Taj agreed to file for bankruptcy protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...midnight approached, the crowd keeping vigil on the front steps of the government building in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian Republic, suddenly burst into song. The anthem was an ancient call to battle, glorifying freedom as "the sweetest of words." As its haunting harmonies echoed down nearby Rustaveli Prospect, tens of thousands of Georgians thrust clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Freedom's Haunting Melody | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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