Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it was over and the two leaders turned to walk away down the red carpet, Clinton reached out and put his arm around Netanyahu. It was an instinctive gesture for the President, an effort to convey warmth amid a general chill. Awkwardly, Netanyahu reciprocated...
...TIME as a staff writer and associate editor, became an occasional contributor in 1989. It was a happy accommodation that gave us the benefit of his talents while freeing him for larger projects--like the two-year collaboration with Nelson Mandela that produced Mandela's 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Now Stengel is back as a senior writer, traveling with the presidential candidates and taking the nation's pulse. This week's contribution: a retort to Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" called "Bowling Together." But Stengel hasn't lost his appetite for outside projects; starting this week...
...also starts with a baby born with her feet turned almost backwards. "They said I wouldn't be able to run and walk with the other kids," that baby, all grown up, now says. So she wore corrective leg braces, wore them to bed, wore them to school. There she is teased because of her name, even though Venus is the goddess of beauty. "Venus is a planet," kids tell her. Even when her own family chooses sides for basketball games, she is left on the sidelines. But in the fourth grade the braces come off, and her body...
...guard/forward on the U.S. Olympic team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...
...friends regularly walk up to me in sheer amazement with eyes as big as medium-sized tractor tires (ok, maybe their eyes are only big from the Vivarin they took to write that Historical Studies B-52 paper) and ask me how I manage to do all the things I do and still have time to relace my tennis shoes on Thursday evenings. Then I just smile that winning smile and tell them how I manage to save so much time. I tell them how I do it. And that...