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While many would expect an NFL neophyte to head into his career with reckless abandon, Birk has made the leap to the NFL with a professional, workman-like approach. Untouched by the glamour and mystique of the NFL spotlight, Birk has carried out business as usual...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Star Birk Adjusts to NFL | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

...mess," she told TIME. "It wasn't fun to work on, and it wasn't fun to watch." ABC-News President David Westin acknowledges that drastic measures were needed. "[The show] simply was not getting better fast enough," he says. "I concluded that we needed to make a quantum leap rather than do it incrementally." After Connie Chung reportedly turned down the job, Sawyer (who will continue her prime-time duties as well) was lured back with the understanding that she and Gibson would serve for only "a few months"--enough time to right the ship and groom some permanent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Good Morning, Diane Sawyer | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

There are three Net indexes on which you can buy put options: Amex Inter@ctive Week, Goldman Sachs and TheStreet.com The Amex also sells long-term options (LEAPS) on individual stocks, including aol, Yahoo, @Home and Ascend. Those expire in January 2001 and give plenty of time for the bubble to burst. But the stock would have to fall 50% in that time for the LEAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Mania | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...health issue." A struggle of sorts had emerged between JAMA and medicine's other prestigious publication, the New England Journal of Medicine, for wider publicity. "There was a feeling that the two journals were leapfrogging each other for press attention," says Gorman. "This, however, may have been the last leap." A leap of great general interest nevertheless -- 'cause in case you're wondering, some 60 percent of college students agree with President Clinton and do not think that oral-genital contact constitutes having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Journal Editor Fired Over Sex Study | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...politics of personal destruction, William Kristol, citing victims who are all Republicans, said that a willingness to use politicians' adulterous behavior against them was, in fact, found exclusively among forces of the left. The other 'bags found this statement unremarkable; somehow, the name Richard Mellon Scaife did not leap to mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Low Road | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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