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Rudenstine said he would consider writing similar letters in the future, adding quickly: "as long as it doesn't begin to bore people...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: President Issues Letter to Harvard Community | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

...Total Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After an hour of naughty chat in Showgirls, you'll start hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: VALLEY OF THE DULLS | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...group, which had distributed fliers before the lecture announcing their plans, bore placards which read "Harvard is White," "Harvard is Male," "Harvard is Straight," "Harvard is Rich" and "Harvard is Christian...

Author: By Maggie Pisacane, | Title: Protests Disrupt Gov't Class | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

...plan that would call for "substantial and decisive air strikes" if the Bosnian Serbs threatened the U.N. safe haven of Goradze. Once the conference was under way, it took 24 hours to convince the allies that the West had to change the way it did business. That effort eventually bore fruit in the form of several new moves, most of which were hammered out in a series of follow-up nato meetings in Brussels. Perhaps the most important change was insistence that the so-called dual-key arrangement, which gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali veto authority over nato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO AND THE BALKANS: LOUDER THAN WORDS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It means that he can no longer go after whomever he wants. His authority is being cut back." Tucker, a Democrat, had been accused of obtaining a federally backed loan under false pretenses and trying to avoid taxes. U.S. District Judge Henry Woods said the charges bore no resemblance to the matters Starr has been assigned to investigate. Ratan cautions, however, that Starr can, and probably will, appeal Woods' decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALKING ON WHITEWATER? | 9/5/1995 | See Source »

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