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Quizzed behind closed doors, Weyrich was unable to cite specific incidents of Tower's misbehavior, but the genie was out of the bottle. The committee was inundated by telephone calls, many anonymous, reporting "sightings" of Tower misbehaving in public. The White House asked Nunn to delay a committee vote while some of the accusations were being checked out by the FBI. Referring to the leaks to the press, Tower privately protested, "They've practically got me dancing naked on top of a piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collapse of A Confirmation | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...feeling is mutual. Both Morrissey and Reynolds cite Piltch as the person who has most influenced their squash careers...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Companions, Teammates and Competitors | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

Harvard administrators cite recent surveys showing that most professors will not take advantage of the ban on mandatory retirement, and say that nearly 50 percent of the senior faculty will have left Harvard by the year...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Too Many or Too Few Professors in the '90s? | 2/23/1989 | See Source »

...seven Oscars, to be exact. And like T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-bred English lieutenant who led a Bedouin revolt against the colonial Turks, David Lean's film has grown in legend. Critics revere it as the cinema's greatest epic, and a young generation of filmmakers fondly cite its achievement and impact. "To me it is one of the most beautiful films ever made," says Martin Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ was a Lawrence on the cheap. "The day before I saw it," says Steven Spielberg, who was 15 at the time, "I thought I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Masterpiece Restored to the Screen: Lawrence of Arabia | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...They cite as evidence recent Harvard admissions data, which shows that Asian-Americans are admitted at only 80 percent the rate of admission for white applicants. In addition, critics say that in 1982 and 1984, while the number of admitted Asian-American students did not increase, the number of applicants increased substantially...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Ed Department Will Continue Review Of Asian-American Admissions Policy | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

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