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...have learned that there's always a new dawn. I was shattered when I first ran into really world-class criticism. Then I discovered that if I hung in there, in a week or two nobody even mentioned all those bad things. Fortunately, there's a new newspaper on the doorstep every morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Admiral William Crowe: Of War and Politics | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Regatta organizers hoped that the world-class East German team would participate in this year's events, but the East Germans have decided not to race because they are on a one-month vacation after a successful performance in Seoul...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No Head-to-Head | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...Thompson was the perfect coach to try to defeat a world-class team with a team that was only together for two months," Heinsohn says. "That Big East defense (which Thompson uses as coach of Georgetown University) is such that whenever Georgetown would play out of conference, no one would know what to do with...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Still Giving 'Em the Hook | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

KEVIN WHITE--"Mayor DeLuxe" and "Kevin from Heaven" were both nicknames for the mayor of Boston from 1967 to 1983--the man credited for transforming the city into what Bostonians like to refer to as "a world-class city." Elected as a liberal reformer in the midst of the city's busing crisis, White's controversial personality came to dominate the Boston politics during his years in office. As the 1983 mayoral election was beginning to heat up, speculation ran rampant over White's decision to seek reelection. White spent $30,000 for a political commercial in which he would...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: From Curley to Kennedy | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...THEBAN PLAYS (PBS, Sept. 16, 23, 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Sophocles' tragic Oedipus trilogy gets world-class treatment in a BBC production starring Anthony Quayle and Claire Bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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