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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago. A year ago, McGwire?s admission that he used the dietary supplement ignited not only sales of the iffy, supposedly muscle-building potion but a firestorm of controversy over his home-run record and his fitness as a role model. Now McGwire had quit, he said, because "Young kids take it because of me. I don't like that." Excuse me, slugger, but how were the young people supposed to know you?d stopped popping if you don?t break the news until the dog days of summer...
...gets out at all. McGwire deliberately passed on a chance to repeat the announcement in front of the post-game news cameras, thereby missing a chance to get his message blanket coverage on the news and sports channels. If McGwire really feels he?s done his young fans a disservice, and wants to reverse the damage, surely this is a lousy way to do it. Then again, he never wanted to talk about it in the first place -- an Associated Press reporter spotted the pills in McGwire?s locker...
...Young Ehud Barak had better get a move on with that peace process ? if Yasser Arafat?s superstitions prove true, the Israeli leader may soon have no Palestinian counterpart with whom to deal. Arafat turned 70 on Wednesday, and according to Palestinian sources he has long believed the warning of some unnamed seer that he would not live more than 70 years. "During his recent meeting with Barak, Arafat was reported to be shaking badly and had great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir...
...wasn't obvious my wife would ever become a public person," David told TIME. "It took a long time." And certainly it was not assumed, even by the election-oriented Kennedys, that the girls in the family were meant for the job. But the young Kathleen, as the first grandchild of Joseph Kennedy, was nonetheless expected to serve in some way. Two days after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Kathleen's father Robert wrote his 12-year-old daughter a note on White House stationery: "As the oldest of the next generation you have a particular responsibility...Be kind...
...worth pondering. With few exceptions, the company considered only funds that had at least a three-year track record. Similarly, the funds' managers had to have at least a three-year tenure at the helm. The company also chose far more stock funds than bond funds, citing its young employee base (average age: 30). For more on the firm's rationale, visit www.morningstar.net...