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...knew the one person from their elementary school who'd gone to Harvard, the one class genius whom they'd known of, but not known. Some wanted to know if Harvard is "a lot of work" and whether it's hard. During the night, two guys asked me to confirm stories they'd heard about life within our mysterious Ivory Tower. Another guy was thrilled to meet me because he'd never before met a Harvard student; he'd known theoretically that we existed, but he'd never seen living proof...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...Arizona state police confirm the presence of a UFO. It has landed, and aliens are trying to communicate. The rally pauses briefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRASH CASE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Superficially, at least, the New England Journal paper appears to confirm this. The study, conducted at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, surveyed 587 people with a history of heart trouble. The 64 who died during the course of the research were among those with the highest levels of homocysteine in their blood. Overall, the research suggested, people with elevated homocysteine are 4 1/2 times as likely to die of heart disease as those with normal levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND CHOLESTEROL | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...Cunanan apparently checked in on May 12 and holed up for two months before the murder. According to the hotel's owner, James Falin, investigators later seized a pair of electric clippers and some fashion magazines from Cunanan's $39-a-night efficiency. Though law-enforcement officials won't confirm that Cunanan stayed there, Falin is convinced Cunanan is the man who checked into Room 205 two months ago, changed rooms three times and left a day or two before the Versace murder, still owing a night's rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAGGED FOR MURDER | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...victims "intentionally and with sadistic brutality," using among other things, knives and iron bars as torture weapons. Goran Neskovic, the deputy justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government, objected that the court demonstrated an anti-Serb bias and that Tadic is "not guilty and not a single witness could confirm that he was responsible." TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief Massimo Calabrisi reports that while Tadic may be small time, the evidence shows he is anything but innocent. As a result, today's sentence will most likely stick. "There is little question that the ethnic cleansing of Serb held Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 20 Years For Tadic | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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