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...terrible teams somehow make the playoffs? Granted the sport of baseball has changed over the years, and not always for the better, but to condemn it across the board is ridiculous. Please, sir, leave my national pastime to me, and I'll leave yours to you. MITCHEL W. GILREATH Lewiston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Last week in Lewiston, Me., Cassius Marcellus Clay, 23, fought a fight that did not seem to be a fight, threw a punch that did not look like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor--in the theater of the absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...addition, a small but growing number of liberal-arts colleges have made test scores optional, in part because they want to draw minorities. Schools such as Connecticut College in New London; Muhlenberg in Allentown, Pa.; and Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Pa., have followed the lead of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, which made scores optional in 1989 and has studies saying that quality hasn't suffered as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: WHAT DOES SAT STAND FOR? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...effectiveness of the death penalty as a general deterrent will always be debated, but there can be no doubt that it is the ultimate specific deterrent: dead people do not commit crimes. LEN B. LOVEDAY Lewiston, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1997 | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...chance would have it, Simon's parents, Dale and Jolene Tucker of Lewiston, Idaho, met an archaeologist at a dinner party. Privately thinking their son would find the reality of excavating to be, well, the pits, they asked her where Simon might be able to look in on a real dig. She told them about Passport in Time (PIT), a USDA Forest Service program established in 1988 that invites the public (at no cost except for providing your own food, camping gear and, at some locations, water) to join in excavations at its sites. Jolene took Simon on his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE INDIANA JONES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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