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...move has significantly disrupted my peace of mind. You see, to me Charlton Heston has always been the white-bearded patriarch standing atop Mount Nebo at the end of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", bellowing sonorously, "proclaim liberty throughout the land!" to Yvonne De Carlo and John Derek. In fact, I've had to endure feeling slightly blasphemous and sacrilegious for most of my life during Passover seders, as Charlton Heston has been the only image my mind has been able to conjure of Moses. I now nervously await next year's Passover to see if the movie...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Moses and the NRA | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other than Kelly's old roommate, ALYCIA SIMMONS, and his own adoptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLASS TRASH | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Hence, in 1986, then-President Derek Bok founded the Program in Ethics and the Professions, which was intended to encourage teaching and research on ethical issues in public and professional life...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Ethics and the Professions Celebrates 10th Annniversary | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...many faculty members when he says that "Harvard is the center of a flourishing poetic culture." Creative talent includes both the well-known poets on the Harvard faculty--such as Professor of English Peter Sacks and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Henri Cole--and poets living in the Boston area, like Derek Walcott, Frank Bidart and new Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position often held by practicing poets, is presently occupied...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Poems, Poets and Poetry at Harvard | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...Jacksonville Jaguars: David LaFleur, TE, LSU. Pretty much everyone acknowledges that current TE Derek Brown stinks. Maybe even his mother. So they will get this 6'7", 280 behemoth who has occasional back problems...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Picking Up the Pace: The 1997 NFL Draft | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

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