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...view is that Newt Gingrich is a bomb thrower. A fire-breathing Republican Congressman from Georgia, he is more interested in right-wing grandstanding than in fostering bipartisanship in the House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Attack Dog, Not a Lapdog | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...programmed life at a "sports-oriented" school in her native Tashkent at age seven. She was spotted as a potential champion at 14. Coach Faina Melnik saw her during a scouting trip and persuaded her to move to Moscow as soon as she finished high school. A discus thrower at the time, she tried the shot at Melnik's suggestion and soon switched, a daring decision for an athlete already in her late teens. Within four years, helped by careful coaching and a training regimen of up to six hours a day for six days a week, she became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Colliding Myths After a Dozen Years | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Freshman Nicolas Sweeney is Harvard's top discus thrower. Haggerty predicts, "Nic Sweeney should be one of the top in the league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Travel to Texas to Train | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

JERUSALEM--Palestinian protesters set fire to a bus and an Israeli civilian shot and wounded an Arab stone-thrower in clashes in the West Bank yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestinians Bomb Israeli Bus | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...canister back at Israeli soldiers. "The army is the provocation," he said. "The fact that they come into our camp is enough so that the shabab react by throwing stones." Osama admitted to being a provocateur. "Since he was a kid, he has belonged to the profession of stone thrower," said his friend Tarek Ali, 18, with some reverence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East In the Eye Of a Revolt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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