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...America likes its talk-show hosts flawed and challenged. Personal woes? You got 'em. Troubled childhood? Check. Weight problem? You'll have fries with that! And the daytime-talk audience, heavily female and black, is the closest thing to your natural power base outside Chappaqua. You were already, in Toni Morrison's words, "America's first black President." Isn't America ready for its first black female ex-President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want My Bubba TV! | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...history of loss and how it can be freed and opened to the pursuit of happiness. Gilligan draws on her own interviews with couples and children - as well as Shakespeare's plays, Freud's case histories, the diary of Anne Frank, and the novels of Hawthorne, Proust, Toni Morrison, and Michael Ondaatje - to offer a radical new map of love." In June, Gilligan will become a faculty member at NYU, in the schools of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: The Pleasure Edition | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...Club gave her status as a major arbiter of taste in the literary world. Culture snobs who thought of her as that mawkish woman who was always on a diet now think of her as that mawkish woman on a diet who has got millions of people to read Toni Morrison. Why leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: Oprah Turns the Page | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...although the individual works in “Living with Too Little” occasionally fail to convey a full and specific course of action, the show does serve a noble purpose and contain powerful potential to motivate us. In the words of Toni Morrison, who often engages community and political issues in her work, “I am not interested in indulging myself in some private, closed exercise of my imagination which is to say yes, the work must be political. It must have that thrust...

Author: By Stephanie L. Lim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Living With Too Little | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...Boit first got on skis in 1996, after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of the Lone Olympians | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

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