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...public's eyes, skater Dorothy Hamill was "America's sweetheart." In 1976, she was the perky 19-year-old with the famous hairdo - "the wedge" - who won an Olympic gold medal for her dazzling figure skating. Her life seemed to glide as easily as her skates. But as Hamill, now 51 and the mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reveals in her frank new book, A Skating Life: My Story, that behind the scenes, she was in the grip of serious depression, which ran through her family. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hamill, who was in Minneapolis...
...country's 20th century heroine, because Fernàndez, 54, enjoys being called the "new Evita." She certainly shares some of Eva Perón's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province and then President. And like her U.S. counterpart, Fernàndez is a senator who's making a run for the top job on her own record. One big difference: Fernàndez consistently records a 20-percentage-point lead...
...speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business we do together and the passion we share." Says Schilling: "It's like this great love affair. Rwanda is becoming America's African sweetheart...
...South of the Border, West of the Sun, 1992 Like Bergman and Oe, Murakami never tires of his archetypes - in this case the lovelorn, middle-aged male loner. In this tale of lost innocence, a jazz-club owner approaching his 40s reunites with his elusive childhood sweetheart...
...weddings as of barbecues and rodeos. So it was saying something at Duschene Academy, her Roman Catholic girls' school, that Hannaman was chosen as Most Likely to Be Married First. But her teenage fantasies of buttercream frosting and silky bridesmaids dresses first began to crack with her high school sweetheart. He dated her for more than a decade before she finally got tired of waiting for a marriage proposal that was never going to come. There were other men after that, but it was Hannaman who repeatedly decided against a life built for two. Marriage, it began to dawn...