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...warehouse in the Old Port section of Portland, Me., seems an unlikely setting for an investment firm. Instead of having spacious wood-paneled boardrooms adorned with portraits of famous financiers, the modest offices of Tribal Assets Management feature bare brick walls lined with photographs of Indian chiefs in full headgear. But when Tribal Assets speaks, the Passamaquoddy, Chippewa and Cherokee tribes listen. The company has handled investments worth $250 million for Indians across the U.S., bringing Wall Street wizardry to the world of tribal finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Band of Tribal Tycoons | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into a 30-ft. by 60- ft. dress. And she tops off the reckless excess with phantasmagoric headgear that looks like a co-creation by Medusa and Dr. Seuss. Proclaims Jones: "The audience sees me as a larger-than-life image they can worship -- like a hero." So there. And Liberace, babe, eat your heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...apparently because a case involved two competing principles that both appealed to her as a conservative. In March, for instance, weighing the demands of military authority against the exercise of religious belief, she rejected Rehnquist's majority opinion that the Air Force could enforce a dress code prohibiting religious headgear, in this case a yarmulke. Says Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute: "She just wanted a little more military justification." On the same day, her close attention to procedural correctness led to another disappointment for conservatives. In a 5-to-4 decision involving the legitimacy of a voluntary-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Establishing Her Independence | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...claims to have attended every State hockey contest for the past decade, Borgman was resplendent in a Viking-style helmet and Spartan hockey shirt. Green-dyed buffalo fur lined the top of the helmet, and a green Budweiser cap dangled from one of the horns of Borgman's unusual headgear...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: One Brief Shining Moment | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...Itech "Face-Off Shield" is a solid, clear barrier made of Plexiglass-like material. Attached to the Crimson's Cooper helmets, the shield turns the puckster's headgear into a motorcycle helmet...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Checkmating Injuries | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

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