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According to McNamara, Williams told his victim that he needed cash for a train ticket. When the student lent him the money--over $250, according to police reports--he wrote an IOU with a false name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Catch Suspects In Bicycle Theft, Scam On Friday; Arrest Two | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...stouthearted but miscast Admiral James Stockdale. Perot would love to have a blue-chip candidate like David Boren, Warren Rudman or Sam Nunn, but so far none of them will give him a tumble. Perot, by most accounts, would be a most happy fella to have Lamm on the ticket, but Lamm has demurred, a stance that doesn't make sense if Lamm wants to build the party and become the heir apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIS WAY OR NO WAY | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...plausibly live" broadcasts and virtual-reality competitions and an Olympic Experience store, the highlights of the first interactive Games were plain, old-fashioned human interactions. Bagpipes played on Peachtree Street, and fans learned a new lexicon in which misters are not just gentlemen in Georgia and ticket-holders are made of plastic. The effortlessly graceful Marie-Jose Perec showed that she was a true champion when her bronzed rival in the 400 m, Falilat Ogunkoya, teared up as she thought of the mother she had just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GAMES TRIUMPHANT | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Nowell left behind his new bride Troy, an 11-month-old son Jakob and a host of might-have-beens. The group's final album, titled simply and aptly Sublime (MCA), was released last week and might have been the band's ticket to becoming the hottest new act in the music industry. Nowell might have been to ska what Kurt Cobain was to grunge--a big, blazing talent who introduces the mainstream to a new musical world. Nowell, however, played the Cobain role a bit too well, and Sublime, like Nirvana, will be best remembered as a band with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SUBLIME: WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...perhaps fitting that the President whom his enemies labeled "Tricky Dick" lived to pass judgment on the President known as "Slick Willy." Throughout the 1992 campaign, Nixon denigrated Clinton: "He's Dogpatch...Even his wife is for him only because he is her ticket to power...[He] will be a disaster. But it will give me leeway to criticize him on Russian aid and everything else he screws up. With Bush I had to be restrained." But when the fledgling President sought Nixon's counsel on foreign policy, Nixon found him "very respectful with no sickening bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HER MASTER'S VOICE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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