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That Cozza must replace 13 starters may be deceiving, although it appears certain his team will not approach the caliber of last year's group. The only glaring weakness is the kicking game, where the Elis will have an untested punter and placekicker.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

But he will not be the same politician he was. In the poetry that he quoted last week, he left out the telling passages in which the aging wanderer Ulysses admits his weakness and lost strength to his followers, lines that may apply to the Senator today:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That Which We Are, We Are | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

What had propelled an influential Cabinet Minister into mindless crime may have been a hot temper and a weakness for strong drink. The night before the killing, Tekere allegedly had been partying with some ex-guerrillas near Stamford Farm. Somehow they got into an argument with the farm's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: The First Test | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

But while the press corps was playing "getting used to Reagan" and Carter was falling to the lowest rating in Gallup's 40 years of measuring presidential popularity, FORTUNE published "Why Carter Will Probably Win," by Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Ladd (who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: The Year of the Pragmatists | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

The opposition is not a simple matter of Good (noble conservatism) vs. Evil (predatory pragmatism) because one factor is dependent on the other. The Ewing Oil empire supports the ranch home; the business keeps the family together. J.R. may behave like a raffish amalgam of Machiavelli and the Marquis de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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