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Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Reeve-Irvine Center for spinal-cord research at the University of California at Irvine; the state will match her million. She also established $50,000 prize for the neuroscientist who made the greatest progress in a given year. In February, Reeve did the Larry King Live show, making an explicit appeal for donations for the American Paralysis Association--another considerable success. The following month he took part in the dedication ceremony for a new $18 million rehabilitation unit at the St. Francis Health Care Center in Green Springs, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...wasn't just dragged down, much of it was demolished by a fire-breathing spacecraft resembling a large piece of pita bread. Millions of our compatriots were blown away in a quite grisly fashion. The First Lady, not a bit like Liddy, was zapped by aliens. There's no explicit sex, but the hero is a commitmentphobe who sleeps with a woman who is not his wife in a house with a small child in the next room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: DOLE: THE MOVIE, PART II | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They are one of the few times when TV celebrates hardworking role models instead of the self-absorbed doofuses on most of prime time and in big-time sports--and one when parents can watch with the kids without cringing at explicit sex scenes. That's more than enough reason to tune in. So stuff the stuffed animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOAP OPERA GAMES | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

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