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...cutthroat world of celebrity teddy-bear auctioning, a lot depends on who's wielding the hammer. More people probably want to cuddle up to Elle Macpherson than to ROSIE O'DONNELL, but at an auction for the Children's Safety Project at New York City's Greenwich House, which O'Donnell co-gaveled with KEVIN SPACEY, the talk-show host's bears sold for $5,800, more than 20 times what the model's fetched. (Rosie threw in a guest spot on her show.) Singer Natalie Merchant's personally made bears garnered less than Muhammad Ali's or Al Pacino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGH, THE SMELL OF IT | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...Libertarian Party's fiscal policies make up only half of its two-pronged platform. Libertarians also pledge to return to Americans the civil liberties which they have been long denied, championing the right to free speech and the right to bear arms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Libertarian Platform Merits Consideration | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

...course, when substance abuse or use of firearms infringes on other people -- through injury or death -- then Libertarians favor severe penalties (lengthy jail sentences, forfeiture of the right to bear arms, etc.). Nevertheless, a firm belief in "individual liberty, self-responsibility and freedom from government" remains the central principle behind the proposed Libertarian economic and social policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Libertarian Platform Merits Consideration | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

...probably have fewer sections in your schedule than you had in the past, which could make them less grueling, but in fact only makes them more difficult to bear. You are probably in Core sections--the worst of the bunch. The first-years annoy you--they do all the reading. Sophomores are fine, but they also do a lot of reading. You are busy with seminars, conference courses, pre-thesis activities and the like. The last thing you need is an hour to listen while students eagerly call out and give a soliloquy on Michelangelo or Beethoven's Ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Evolution of Sections | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

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