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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afraid we would have to come down on that," Thompson says...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSOM STAFF WRITER | Title: CLAIMING THE NAME HARVARD | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...described him as the man who developed and sold the technology behind Landmark. "What if I doze off?" "Then you doze off," Handel replied with a shrug. A visibly nervous woman stepped up to the mike. "You said this was going to be a roller-coaster. But I'm afraid of roller-coasters. I never get on them." "You will learn how to stop letting fear hold you back," Handel reassured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...task of reconstructing the "chain of possession" surrounding the documents: who had access to them, when and for how long? Investigators told TIME they have not formally excluded other possibilities--that, for example, a secret-documents clerk innocently botched the document logs or misplaced the material and is now afraid to admit it. Or perhaps the papers were hidden by a disgruntled foreign-service officer. The FBI is moving aggressively on all fronts. Until the facts show otherwise, agents must assume the worst--that the material was stolen to be handed over to a foreign power. A full-scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Purloined Papers? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...wife. But I've got to work on me." Now Anthony has completed the "Advanced Course," and is taking the final course in the curriculum, "Self-Expression and Leadership." He says he feels like a newlywed. His wife agrees. "It's a miracle," she says. And the woman afraid of roller-coasters? Mildred Rodriguez, 33, has signed up to be a Landmark volunteer. Says she: "I'm glad I got on for the ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Right from his first two films in the mid-'60s (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate), Nichols has trusted original material, pruning carefully, changing little. Nichols and May's film of Primary Colors faithfully distills the 366-page book, excising a few colorful critters (like the caricatures of Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson) but bringing the rest to seductive life onscreen. The major elision is the one-night stand Henry has with Susan Stanton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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