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...last 13 months on Crossfire, Buchanan made $367,350. When his campaign is over, says cnn spokesman Steve Haworth, "we very much hope to have him back." No doubt they do, but Pitchfork Pat's higher name recognition should make his fees negotiable. He could also take a second crack at radio. Hugh Rodham, formerly a Florida Senate candidate and still the brother of the First Lady, launched a show of his own in December that's already on 43 stations. Buchanan's talk show last year was picked up by more than 100 stations, enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW (VERY) GREEN WAS MY VALLEY | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...screamed and cowered in the gymnasium. Two other teachers and 12 children were wounded, three critically, before Hamilton put one of the guns to his head and blew part of it away. Nobody can know just what monsters of the psyche drove the strange moonfaced man's mind to crack at that moment, or why he chose the gentlest, most innocent of the school's 729 pupils to be the victims of his inner torments (see Essay). For those who lived through it, the questions have but one answer. "Evil visited us yesterday," said Ron Taylor, the school's headmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: THE LOST CHILDREN | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

Unfair? The real Littlefield is more earnest preppy than pantsless nebbish, a boyish executive with a neatly trimmed beard. One thing his 21 years in the TV business have taught him is that it doesn't pay to be a sourpuss. He claims he used to "crack up" at Letterman's on-air gibes, even when Letterman went so far as to smash a Tiffany candy dish Littlefield had given him as a gift. As for the Late Shift portrayal, Littlefield laughs it off, though he points out that "I don't wear boxer shorts. I wear briefs." He shrugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

Francine Torres plays Ma Ubu with similar aplomb. Proving she is the ART's best comic female actor, Torres moves her body in the same odd fashion as Levin, but she screams, sings, gyrates and disgusts in entirely different ways. She is Jennifer Saunders on crack and Ecstasy at the same time (except with larger breasts, which she reveals to the excited audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gross Poles Run Amok | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard drop a 3-2 heartbreaker, Tracy was nothing short of magnificent. The senior only allowed one goal in a first period in which Harvard was hideously outshot, 14-2. In that period, Tracy also made his 2,000th career save, becoming only the third Crimson netminder ever to crack that mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECAC Tourney Down to the Final Four | 3/13/1996 | See Source »

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