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...interview just before the speech, Epps passed the buck back to Hall, saying it was the "decision of the sponsors," not to allow outside reporters into the speech...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Handling Jeffries | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

...small army of Americans is rushing to help the Russian economy. Some are samaritans; some are charlatans. Many are looking to make a quick buck; others are searching for adventure. There are even two people named Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Harvard's Jeffrey D. Sachs, 37, is better known. But there is also Jeffrey A. Sachs, 38, a dentist who was once a social-policy adviser to New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. Jeffrey A. runs Ecolink, a New York City-based project that is trying to show the Russians how to use public finance to build an AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yep, There's Another One | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Downing, who averages 16.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, has opened the floor for All-Ivy guard Buck Jenkins, who scored 25 in the Lions' victory over Cornell, and Ivy League Player of the Week Russ Steward, who has tallied 61 points and 23 rebounds in Columbia's last three games...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Tough Road for M. Cagers | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

...extant literature on the inner child. A $700,000 advance can buy a lot of self-esteem. But if that's not enough, if only the women whose lives were touched by Steinem were to buy the book, it would be a best seller. Here, Gloria, is $22.95. Buck up, and thanks for everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Feminists Get the Blues | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...hosts of children's shows, for example, can no longer hawk products to gullible young viewers. Even when she failed to bring about change, her constant, nagging presence -- and a knack for the pithy quote -- kept network programmers mindful that their responsibility to children went beyond simply making a buck from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ms. Kidvid Calls It Quits | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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