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...Dante was the biggest, Mark the fastest and Thomas the ’tweener, bigger than Mark though not as fleet of foot. They were good at all their sports—Dante, a two-time USA Today Honorable Mention All-American in basketball, and Mark, a New England champ in track—but football was the house favorite...
...Frozen Four…Well, BC is loaded, and two teams that played in one of last year’s national semifinals—Michigan and two-time defending champ Minnesota—both return several key players. Three spots might be locked up already...
...remained debonairly calm. The old men stayed at their posts in the cafes, stoically sipping espresso in the white, noon sun. Everything in me wanted to take action, hoard bottled water, build underground shelters. But only the slightest adjustments were made: wine and candles were taken outside to the Champ de Mars, and family dinners were held beneath the Eiffel Tower. Knowing how to live apparently means knowing that nothing will last and everything has happened before. But by the end of last week, as the old stone houses lost their ancient stores of cool and the night air grew...
DIED. IDI AMIN, 80, utterly ruthless former dictator of Uganda; in Saudi Arabia, where he lived a life of luxury in exile with one of several wives and 22 of his children. During an eight-year reign that plunged a prosperous nation into desperate poverty, the onetime military boxing champ used slaughter as a form of statecraft. The son of a peasant farmer and a mother who practiced sorcery, the nearly illiterate Amin joined the British colonial army in 1946. Nine years after Uganda achieved independence in 1962, he led a successful coup, then embarked on murderous campaigns against political...
Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson declared bankruptcy last week after earning an estimated $350 million in a controversial career. Even during his glory days, when TIME featured him on its cover, there were signs of trouble ahead...