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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...totally at home. But at a studio, surrounded by other experts who all have their contributions to make, I used to feel a terrible pressure as the person in front of the camera." And it didn't absolutely help that Sir Ian is gay--Britain's first openly homosexual knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sir Ian McKellen: Ready for His Closeup | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

What Zemsky wants to know is this: What does a degree from Harvard, Hamilton or Humboldt State get you in life? Is it worth the investment? To test his methodology, Zemsky identified seven market segments and recruited 15 institutions--members of the 160-campus Knight Collaborative--that spread across all seven. He had them survey their class-of-1992 graduates six years out of college. Over the course of nine months, the participating schools were able to get a 48% response rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: What Makes A Good College | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...these days is TOM CRUISE, who extended his string of rescue missions last week by aiding a mugging victim in London. Hearing cries for help, Cruise, emboldened no doubt by the presence of his bodyguards, ran to assist a woman being robbed of her jewelry. Cruise is no neophyte knight in Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued castaways from a burning boat. Also that year, he swooped in to comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...Leonard Knight, 66, has found heaven, picking Hank Williams tunes on his guitar, pumping his rickety bike into Niland and laying down coat after coat of paint on his hillside GOD IS LOVE shrine, a 14-year project at the entrance to Slab City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Crazy, Them Or Us? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...couldn't be any happier," says Knight, a former snow shoveler from Vermont who has cash to spare from his monthly $200 Social Security check. Yeah, summer is miserable. "But I got 18 coats of paint on [the shrine] now, and you should see it shine when it really heats up. It's beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Crazy, Them Or Us? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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