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While excellence was evident on the U.S. women's team, a sense of unity was not. Certainly it didn't help that the six competitors and one alternate were thrown together only one month earlier. It helped even less that head coach Bela Karolyi and the other U.S. coaches bickered all the way to Barcelona. "The coaches hate each other," said someone close to the team. "Sometimes the girls feel as if they can't talk to each other because their coach will get upset." Word leaked out of the Olympic Village that the gymnasts were under strict regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gymnastics Ode to Joylessness | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...lines were rattling, the tabloids were tattling, the gossips were thrown for a loop. Not since Arthur Miller wed Marilyn Monroe had Hollywood seen so unlikely a marriage of high and low popular art. This time the betrothed were two companies recognized as the best in their very different lines of moviemaking: Merchant Ivory Productions, the independent team responsible for such stately dramas as A Room with a View and Howards End, and the Walt Disney Studios, ace hucksters of no-brow cinema. Disney agreed to co- finance and distribute Merchant Ivory's films for the next three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honey,I Sent the Kids to Oxford | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Democrats are performing almost flawlessly. "We've finally met our match," says a senior Bush aide. "Clinton punches and counterpunches like a Republican -- and worst of all, he obviously understands how important it is to strike back in the same news cycle. So far, nothing we've thrown at him has gone unanswered by the evening news broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Amateurs, but Playing Like Pros | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...have to draw a limit on what you considerpressure to speak," Less said. "That he thinks hemay be thrown out of a prestigious law schoolshouldn't rise to the level of...[being] beaten...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watkins Appeal Denied; May Take Case to SJC | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

Shakhrai, who is trying to prove that the party, which Yeltsin banned last year, was an illegal institution even under Soviet law, emerged from the smashed car with only a bruised shoulder. His bodyguard, who was thrown through the windshield, broke both legs, and his chauffeur suffered an injured spine. The mystery driver sped away, leading some of Shakhrai's colleagues to suspect foul play. "We don't know yet whether it was just an ordinary traffic accident," a spokesman said. As the investigation began, Shakhrai, who dismissed the assassination theory, returned to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attempted Murder? | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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