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9. The tricky part about winning the Triple Crown is leading the league in all three categories in the same year. There have been five players who have led their league in the three offensive areas (HRs, RBIs and B.A.) in different years, but have never won the Triple Crown...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: 1988 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

One of the few salutary side effects of the killings and beatings in Gaza and the West Bank has been the emerging willingness of thoughtful American Jews and non-Jews to criticize Israeli policies. Maybe it had to take events of such high repugnance to get the words in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Israel Below Criticism? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

The pronunciation is tricky. So are the provenance and political implication of the scarf on sale from sidewalk vendors all over the East Coast. Say ka- fee-a, and the sound will be right. Wear the large, brightly checked square of cotton around the neck, shawl style over the shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kaffiyehs: Scarves And Minds | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

About 350 years ago, a French amateur mathematician named Pierre de Fermat scratched a devilishly tricky problem in the margin of a Greek mathematical text. Then he added, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof ((of the theorem)), which this margin is too small to contain." Did he really have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Solving The Puzzle | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

After seven long years of a president dependent on mediocre advisers for guidance and telegeneity for support, it is time for a change. America needs a president who has proven his ability to lead. America needs a president willing to make the tough decisions on trade and the deficit. America...

Author: By Jane E. Arnold, | Title: Richard Gephardt | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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