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...hard to imagine a human being who holds on to more odd items than Geller. Above his fireplace he has beanie caps with propellers on the top (required dress code for CS 50 teaching fellows, thanks to Geller); on his trunk lies an 8-inch plastic green locust and a roll of electric cable warning tape in Hebrew, English and Arabic. And we haven't even opened his drawers...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Magic Tricks | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...hearing before the commission on the feasibility of placing the 18- inch satellite dish on the roof of Mass. Hall, home to Harvard's president, provost, and vice presidents, had been scheduled for June...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Officials Reject Satellite Plan | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...past, Davis had made his exams "open everything." But students had begun to tote inch-think reams of copied answers to previous exams and problem sets, making it easy for those with the most photocopies to answer any recycled questions...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Professor, Students Clash on Exam Aids | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...been the same since they became recording stars. Last spring Chant, their Latin-language recording of medieval Gregorian sung prayer, achieved the nearest thing to a record-industry miracle: it ascended to No. 3 on the pop music charts, lodging next to hits by Snoop Doggy Dogg and Nine Inch Nails. Soon the ancient walls of their remote monastery in northern Spain were besieged by tourists and paparazzi. Even more troubling, the monks came to feel that their record company had given them a raw deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: LEAVING LITTLE TO CHANTS | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...that the 'boys' came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them win their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists." The sparks, Chirac predicts, will come on "trade issues-we won't give one inch on culture and agriculture-but on the really essential things there is no problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE HOUR, AT LAST | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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