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...appropriate that LESLEY VISSER should end up on a show that goes head to head with Ally McBeal. She's the Anti-Ally--frank, confident, sporty, not awash with self-doubt. She's the first woman to be admitted into what is generally considered Y-chromosome ground zero: Monday Night Football. Not bad for a reporter who once had a footballer sign her notebook, assuming she was a fan. And who was told she got her first TV gig because she had the experience and was "cosmetically correct." (Did Marv Albert sit that test?) "I try to make every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Answers: Rice: C-1 Theismann: A-2 Visser: B-3 Vitale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...acquaintances. Her conclusion: emotionally crippled by an unhappy childhood, Speer was a frustrated romantic whose reciprocated love for Hitler--a sublimated, nonsexual but homoerotic devotion--blinded him to dark realities he chose not to see or hear. In effect, Speer existed in what the Dutch Protestant theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft has called "a twilight between knowing and not knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TWILIGHT ZONE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

While the scheme does not actually transfer land, it gives workers part ownership of a very profitable venture. Wilhelmina Visser, whose three sisters and husband also work on the farm, says, "The past gave us nothing. Now we have something to put into our future." Farmer Hall calls it a "win-win situation. The workers have a sense of security, and the farm benefits by loyalty, job satisfaction and greater productivity." In the orchards, women pickers affectionately call him oupa -- grandfather -- behind his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Their Own Miracles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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