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Back in Massachusetts, however, Harvard has not been the recipient of much attention. The women's team practices often consist of simulations on a wooden horse in the basement of Adams House...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: There's More to Polo Than Malodorous Cologne | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

What does all this mean for Lubbock's Jews? I can't speak for my coreligionists, but my own recollections of growing up in Lubbock consist less of the the occasional bigotries ("Don't you want to go to heaven?") than of the many instances of respectful curiousity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Lubbock a Break | 9/20/1990 | See Source »

...Baerwald is now honing a screenplay on which he collaborated with Sean Penn. He is also touring with a fine, fierce new band. They lay down a carbolic concert that may eventually include the exquisite Hello Mary, a piece of lovelorn virtuosity whose lyrics consist entirely of one end of an overheard phone conversation: "Heard you had a son/ Don't remember his name/ That's a really nice name/ I just called/ To check and see/ If my memory's correct/ And you mean a thing to me." The song sounds so heartfelt it almost seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Life Along the Fault Line | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...measure the minute motions of hanging weights as they ride the waves. The observatory will not be a single facility but a pair of installations separated by at least 1,600 km (1,000 miles) to rule out false signals from, say, local earthquakes. Each L-shaped installation will consist of two pipes 4 km (2.5 miles) long, set at right angles to each other and emptied of air. A laser, placed at the intersection of the pipes, will emit a beam that is split into two parts, each of which will bounce back and forth between suspended weights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Signals From Distant Disasters | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...American families--more than half of which include two careers--will only increase marital dissolution, gender inequality and unhappiness among children. The United State is the only industrialized nation besides South Africa that doesn't guarantee family leave. President Bush's "kinder and gentler," "pro-family" agenda seems to consist of keeping America in that shameful company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Family Values | 5/23/1990 | See Source »

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