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Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Donahue requested the Law School videotape of the event, which drew more than 250 spectators to the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. The Federalist Society paid for the taping...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Law Students Fight Over Video | 4/19/1990 | See Source »

...international competition has spurred remarkable progress in the effort to understand nature's mysteries. Says theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin: "Before, we had a zoo of particles, but no one knew why they were the way they were. Now we have a simple picture." That picture, known as the Standard Model, is based on a set of theories that attempt to describe the nature of matter and energy as simply as possible. The model holds that nearly all the matter we know of, from garter snakes to galaxies, is composed of just four particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Ultimate Quest | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...plus a business manager, a press agent and a sometime coach named Billie Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator Bud Collins, "the best American player since Billie Jean." That accolade puts her above the likes of Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin and Capriati's friend and role model, Chris Evert, the sport's winningest player of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jennifer Capriati: The Next Chris Evert? | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...invariable caution raised about allowing young players onto the professional tour is that they may be subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jennifer Capriati: The Next Chris Evert? | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...generation Texan, he personally leads roundups and spring brandings of the 900 Brangus cattle on his 43-sq.-mi. Happy Cove Ranch in the Big Bend country. He concedes that he once decked a disgruntled ex-employee, explaining, "There are times when you don't call a lawyer." Observes Austin political consultant George Christian: "He typifies what a lot of people think Texas ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cowpoke for Governor? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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