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...rest of the season to experiment. It could build up Frasier or 3rd Rock by putting them after Seinfeld. Meanwhile, Just Shoot Me, a modest success starring Laura San Giacomo as an editor who works for a women's magazine owned by her father, is being given a Thursday tryout, as is NewsRadio, a clever show that in three seasons has never lived up to its ratings potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Can Anybody Fill Seinfeld's Shoes? | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Jessica Burris, 14, answers the door to her Conyers, Ga., home in her stocking feet. She offers an easy smile with a glint of braces. She is taking a breather, having just returned from an All State Chorus tryout, and soon she'll be leaving for a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS WHO CARE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...beginning was the letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISH ARE JUMPIN' | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Only much later did a roommate add that Judy was selected to this national team following her first time tryout, started every game thereafter and played flyer, a position usually reserved for the quickest, fastest, most aggressive player on the team, or in this case, the country...

Author: By Kelly M. Gushue, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Modest Collins Leads Field Hockey by Example | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

...threat that it would take guns away from American citizens. In the Gulf War he made two clean kills, once knocking an enemy soldier's head off his shoulders like a cue ball. McVeigh bragged often about that shot. Then, on the second day of a 21-day tryout for the Green Berets, McVeigh quit, and soon left the Army altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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