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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teenagers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, 11 crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop wailers, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good press agent," chirped Ringo. (They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Olympic village," she declared firmly. "But I've got to focus on my own thing right now and do what's good for me." Conventional wisdom says that Kwan should have played it differently, a little looser perhaps. But she had lighter moments, visiting a Zenkoji temple and watching Harrison Ford kick butt in Air Force One hours before doing likewise in her short program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Back On Top | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Chung and Co-president Harrison W. Lin '98 hosted the evening, which began with the MIT Lion Dance Troupe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Celebrate New Year | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

Another neurotoxicology topic that occupies him involves mercury exposure in the Amazon as a result of gold mining. Such exposure can cripple the human nervous system. Last year, Counter met with actor and conservationist Harrison Ford, the 1996 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, to publicize the cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Counter: A Renaissance Man | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

...Harrison (daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Horizons: A good mystery from a series on the badlands | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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