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...HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Books | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...dinner, Reyes ignores his aches and pains and concentrates instead on the food?fish and rice, one light beer?the friends (all men) he's assembled around him, and, later at a karaoke bar, the lyrics to Before You Go by Matt Munro and Englebert Humperdink's The Way It Used to Be. That weekend, he took his bad eyes and bad elbows to the Tokyo-9 Ball Tournament and won the most lucrative event in the sport, pocketing about $160,000. The following weekend, he won again, this time in Warsaw, Poland. Still, he continues to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 8-ball, Corner Pocket | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Coach J. Bruce Munro took the helm of the soccer program and over the next 26 years became Harvard's all-time winningest coach in addition to one of its longest serving mentors...

Author: By David R. De remer and Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Football Fumbles; Other Sports Step Up | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Tiananmen immolations in the official Chinese-language press. But its troubles may not be over. Anonymous flyers distributed last week in Shanghai and Wuhan mailboxes ominously spoke of the necessity of taking "extreme measures." "Tiananmen is China's national political altar," says veteran human-rights watcher Robin Munro. "Blood spilled there consecrates a cause." For the five Falun Gong extremists, perhaps only fire could purify the nation's spiritual center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Hot to Handle | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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