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Burt Reynolds won't be doing any credit-card commercials. He has filed for bankruptcy protection, claiming more than $10 million in debts and slightly less than that in assets. The bankruptcy filing is to enable him to "continue his illustrious career," says his attorney, while meeting his obligations, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Class marshals in addition work with the senior Gift co-chairs, who raise money for the class. The information sheet does acknowledge that this task is a voluntary one, yet it seems to me that fundraising is one of the activities most extensively engaged in by Harvard. Just ask the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consider Your Marshals | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Members of the troupe have gone on to such illustrious careers as posing for Playboy "with...clothes on" (which is considered by group members not scandalous enough), writing a script for director Spike Lee, performing in the play "Angels in America" on Broadway and working for Hal Prince, who directs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improv Comedy Groups Play for Laughs | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

Illustrious medical schools, no friends of untested practice, have joined lesser-known schools and research groups in taking a new look at what some prefer to call complementary medicine. Harvard Medical School, a bastion of high-end biomedical research, offers a course on how alternative treatments might affect clinical practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHALLENGING THE MAINSTREAM | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Fame is often difficult for parents to cope with; but surely it imposes upon them an obligation where their children are concerned. A lot of illustrious parents have produced unhappy offspring. Winston Churchill, himself a neglected child, did not do well with his profligate boozehound son Randolph. On the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDHOOD IN A FISHBOWL | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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