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...impose a ban on myself during the school year at Harvard: no pleasure reading. Many of my friends, even those in similarly reading-intensive concentrations like history and literature, do read for fun during the school year, but I know that if I crunch one bite of the forbidden fruit, I will be doomed forever--or at least until the end of exams. With more than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more that it can take...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Summer Offers Time for Pleasure Reading | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...Murphy, happily, is something Lewis never was: a comic actor of astonishing range. He is able to invest his Professor Klump with an endearing dignity, give his lounge lizard alter ego, Buddy Love, an alligator's bite and then go on from there to play Klump's grandma. Also his mother, father and brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FUNNY PROFESSOR | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...avenues to peace despite their political-campaign rhetoric. Even Yasser Arafat proved that one can work toward peace under proper circumstances and receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Instead of being sarcastic about it, let us congratulate the people of Israel who elected Netanyahu, a young, energetic, intelligent sound-bite master, politically seasoned (in the American way). VALIYAVEETIL T. SAMUEL Grambling, Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1996 | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Last week the Postal Sevice and the Humane Society sponsored Dog-Bite Prevention Week and highlighted top danger zones for carriers. (Of the estimated 4.7 people bitten last year, children were usually the victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

Frito-Lay is now a virtually unassailable stronghold that provided a more than bite-size 31% of PepsiCo's $3.5 billion in operating profits last year. Frito-Lay's 1995 profits hit $1.13 billion, up from $617 million in 1991. The company has added some 9,000 jobs since it reorganized, bringing its payroll to 35,000. Sales have been rising 10% to 11% a year, while other big food companies, such as Campbell Soup and Nabisco, have eked out gains of no more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRITO-LAY UNDER SNACK ATTACK | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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