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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Rose's candor about wanting the big bucks is admirable and polls have shown that the majority of fans want Pete in the Hall, he's had an almost pathological resistance to acknowledging the darker parts of his history. According to the compelling evidence gathered by Major League Baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thorn in Pete Rose | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

But suddenly talk of evidence seems fusty as Rose, who now claims he never had a gambling problem and who still regularly bets on horse racing, has succeeded in transforming his case into a sentimental cause, tapping into our national willingness to forgive errant public figures. Think of Bill Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thorn in Pete Rose | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

While the military has issued a gag order in the Winchell proceedings, a TIME reconstruction of the prosecution's case, based on pretrial statements and testimony, gives a grim account of what transpired at Barracks 4028. Winchell, a .50-cal. machine gunner, loved being in the vaunted 101st Airborne Division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

With the beer gone, soldiers drifted away. Winchell was taking care of the battalion's mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. Dogs aren't allowed in barracks rooms, so he pulled a cot from the third-floor room he shared with Fisher, 26, onto the open-air landing. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Free trade is always a hard sell. In all of social science, the proposition that comes closest to being scientific, in terms of being theoretically provable and true in real life, is that a society benefits from allowing its citizens to buy what they wish--even from foreigners. But people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystical Power of Free Trade | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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