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...victory speech broadcast over loudspeakers near 125th Street. That same day they wrote letters to the president-elect. "I want to change things, too", wrote Fortune Nbumbo, 7. Tatiana Jones, 9, told Obama, "You open the door not just for me, but for everybody." For the students at FLI, the definition of leadership is clearer than it's ever been, and the playing field, even if it's a patch of turf between two brick walls, is slowly leveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse 110th Street | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...Have you ever thought about teaching? -Susan Olson in Vero Beach, FLI don't feel I'm a teacher. Teachers have a certain talent for it. They get a certain pleasure out of it and it means something to them and they give that off. I'm just not that. I've actually never thought about and I don't think I would ever think about it. I just express myself and hope somebody relates to it. I've been around teachers my whole life and when you get around the great ones it's a really magnificent thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Al Pacino | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...through," said Ali when the fight was over. Sporting a robe given him by Elvis Presley, he then hobnobbed with such fans as Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr. But it wasn't all fisticuffs and show biz. Ali was also promoting his new toy Oop-fli (a ring spun off two sticks and caught by an opponent's two sticks), which he hopes will earn him a tidy bundle. Another Frisbee or Hula-Hoop it isn't, but then Muhammad Ali is not the champion any longer, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1973 | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...peeled a quarter-century away and made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned out to be a prince. It had a very large chorus that shuffled about with very short steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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