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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greatness has a price, though. For some fans, it was the four-figure ticket. Jordan's touching sentiment on his change of uniform numbers--he didn't want to wear his old 23 if his late father couldn't see it--was somewhat diminished by the fact that even as he played his first game, the Champion sportswear company was turning out Jordan 45 jerseys. Sometimes with Jordan, you don't know where the reality ends and the commercial begins. Asked what playing minor-league baseball did for him, he said, "It helped me realize what was important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAELS TYSON AND JORDAN: TWO CHAMPS ARE BACK | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...image is at once ordinary and sinister. Amid the bustle of Kasumigaseki subway station, in downtown Tokyo, three attacha cases stand unattended by the ticket barrier. Suddenly, gas begins hissing ominously out of one of them. When police eventually examine the cases, they discover that each holds containers of clear liquid, a powerful battery-operated vaporizer and a fan to blow the resulting vapor through vents. The cases are rigged to operate as automatic dispensers. But dispensers of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRICE OF FANATICISM | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

They were singing for the Huskies, but they could just as well have been paying homage to women's intercollegiate basketball. The sport has become a hot ticket, and not just in Storrs, Connecticut, where $8 tickets to the game against Tennessee were scalped for as much as $100. The women's version of the Final Four, to take place in Minneapolis on April 1 and 2, has been sold out for months, and March Maidness is such that ESPN, the Prime Network and CBS are all scheduled to cover the various stages of the 64-team National Collegiate Athletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASKETBALL: CALL IT MARCH MAIDNESS | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...Wall Street Journalreports the value of goods and services being sold in relation to the Simpson trial -- including ticket sales for a museum exhibit featuring a scale model of the courtroom, with an Akita dog on the witness stand -- is approaching $200 million, more than the gross domestic product of Grenada.The O.J. Files

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIMPSONOMICS | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

...Which one should I pick first, defer, bag all together? I mean, the Rhodes is the super coolest, Yale is the best law school in the universe, and I'd get zillions of frequent flyer miles traveling all over the place consulting for McKinsey. (I could get a free ticket to Tahiti every winter!) The decision is driving me nuts. I can't eat or sleep, and I haven't had any time for my roommates, who are expecting lives of retail and/or artistic squalor...

Author: By Melrosing IN Mather, | Title: Norma Knows | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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