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What marked Jordan and set him apart from all the other great players of his era were a number of things: his great natural athletic ability, honed every year to a fine degree as he worked to improve his game; his high intelligence; his shrewd knowledge of the game; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How He Got Up There | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Most worrisome, my LDL level (the so-called bad cholesterol, but actually low-density lipoprotein, which helps maintain cholesterol in the blood) is high at 148 compared with my "good" HDL (high-density lipoprotein, which helps clear cholesterol), which is 54. Moore assures me I can lower my cholesterol without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diary Of A Mid-Life Checkup | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

On Chaplin's first night in New York in September 1910, he walked around the theater district, dazzled by its lights and movement. "This is it!" he told himself. "This is where I belong!" Yet he never became a U.S. citizen. An internationalist by temperament and fame, he considered patriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comedian CHARLIE CHAPLIN | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

"The weakness of the tenure system is that it pays too much attention to the opinion of the profession, which mostly consists of letters from people who are not good enough to be at Harvard," says Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, Kenan professor of government.

Author: By Tara L. Colon, | Title: Tenure Process Not Uniform Across Fields | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

India insists it will not join either treaty so long as they allow the nuclear haves to retain their warheads, missiles and development capabilities while banning the have-nots from acquiring anything. The treaties, says Vajpayee, are discriminatory and hypocritical. "Our hope," he said, "is that those nations that want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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