Word: triumph
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...decade. But its legacy is an entirely different matter. It has less to do with what the decade actually meant, and more to do with what those 16-year-olds at the concert believe it meant. Those who remember the '60s favorably herald the decade as a triumph of progressive reform and popular empowerment. Maybe it was. But what are we left with...
...sometimes fertilizes the soil." For 40 years he has obsessed--Guevara keeps using the word--over the "consummation of the revolution that we know has not been fully achieved." Yet Fidel is intensely proud that he has again defied world predictions of his imminent demise, as satisfying a triumph to him as any that went before...
...compete. "The danger with $20 million musicals," says veteran producer Emanuel Azenberg, "is that you have to run for 28 years, have five companies around the world and play to the lowest common denominator." Azenberg's Side Show was one of two decent little musicals (the other was Triumph of Love) that recently closed, unable to keep pace with the fast crowd. (Azenberg is mulling the unusual step of reopening Side Show in April, in hopes of snaring some Tony nominations...
...broad range of solid scholarly research has concluded that popular German anti-Semitism neither accounted for Hitler's triumph nor was it the impetus behind the Final Solution," writes Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors...
...fallibility and, yes, maturity as she crosses blades with her toughest competitor, Tara Lipinski, 15 (rid of her final baby molar only last year when she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships). Hordes of sponsors and adoring young fans are choosing sides. Even bookstores are battlegrounds, with Lipinski's Triumph on Ice taking on Kwan's Heart of a Champion. A real showdown, though, took place last week at the 1998 Nationals in Philadelphia, from which only one could emerge with bragging rights as America's best at the 18th Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan...