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...with the fat of the bat. We know they can do that. I mean, are they ready to hit and land their feet as American icons? Can they live forever in the records of the game--and survive this year? Can they bulldoze into the Hall of Fame and worm their way into our hearts? What price will they pay for their place in our small pantheon of power heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The America That Babe Ruth Built | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...easy to like Carter. His passion for helping the helpless and making the world better has manifested itself in a hundred energetic ways--in his labor as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity, for example, and in his less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives Of The Saint | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Radcliffe years past can't be in a flick of the bunioned toe, but a few years of concentrated effort might help. And the past couple of years has seen a fairly sustained interest in...an attempt. But it's valiant, as memories of past organized summer dance programs worm their way into our heads. Of course, you've probably heard most about one big extravaganza, but first thing's first: metaphysics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDITORIALS | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...first and considered later. Party because actually seeing the floor-level set past twelve rows of upper-class attendees requires great skill and cunning and partly because the play is riddled with T.S. Eliot's innocuously cryptic language, no distinct message leaps forth from the play. Rather, various lines worm their way into the audience, reappearing days later as pertinent homilies for the daily personal lives of audience members...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T.S. Eliot Mixes an Angst-Ridden `Cocktail' | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...April 26, 1992, after two rounds of voting widely judged to have been free and fair, civilian Alpha Oumar Konare was elected President, and A.T.T., now an immensely powerful and popular general, stepped down. Instead of returning to the barracks, he took on the job of fighting Guinea worm disease and now also mediates regional disputes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Rising | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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