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...week, the Senate had managed to do only what it seems to do best these days--tee up rhetoric for the presidential race. The Democratic front runner, Al Gore, called the vote "a fraud," and Clinton threatened to veto the bill. But the vote was useful in the way it teed up something else: a preview of what could be a real debate. Four of last week's fights prove that when our leaders do get serious about health reform, they will have to move beyond tearful anecdotes and start making hard choices. The cases in point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Malpractice | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Since 1981, Sarazen has joined Nelson and Sam Snead in hitting a ceremonial tee shot to officially start the Masters. He hit his drive this year about 140 yards down the left side of the fairway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Legend Sarazen Dies at 97 | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...Gene was a pioneer participant in the Masters tournament and held a special relationship with Augusta National," club chairman Hootie Johnson said. "We will miss him very much next year on the first tee. He was a great champion and ambassador for golf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Legend Sarazen Dies at 97 | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...black slang, being "bougie," derived from bourgeois, means being socially pretentious. It fits Lawrence Otis Graham to a tee. His book, Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (HarperCollins; 418 pages; $25), is the literary equivalent of the nose job Graham obtained so that he could "further buy into the aesthetic biases [toward light complexions, straight hair and sharp features] that many among the black elite hold so dear." In other words, to brownnose the black blue bloods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bougie Like Me | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...screens aired less popular figure-skating championships. Good Time's "Las Vegas night" drew a large gray-haired contingent, honing in on their poker prowess and amassing piles of plastic chips. The bumper cars immediately caught our eyes; we navigated toward the rink, through a tattooed cluster of Metallica Tee shirts and crotch-length skirts...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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