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...being a frequent user of marijuana, and to avoid penalty from the Baseball Commission for smoking it, he fabricated a story of sprinkling pot on his organic buckwheat pancakes. The THC, he claimed, would be activated in his bloodstream as he jogged to practice. Then-baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn never did figure out if he could charge Lee with anything...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Spacing Out on Politics | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

...Then again, it could be a Purdue," said his roommate, Steven L. Kuhn '91, refering to the chicken company and Big Ten school...

Author: By Salil Kumar, | Title: Chicken Invades Yard Dorm | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

...grew up on Long Island. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1973, he joined the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he played a mean shortstop on the firm's baseball team and put his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport to use in representing then Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. In 1979 Reichler's firm picked him to help recover Nicaraguan assets pilfered by the Somoza dictatorship. Two years later, when Arnold & Porter grew disenchanted with the Sandinistas, Reichler took the Nicaraguan account to another firm. But after that firm declined to press a Nicaraguan case against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Managua's Man in D.C. | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...which accounts for 20% of federal outlays. Various ideas were floated, including setting a limit on cost of living adjustments, delaying them for a few months or taxing Social Security benefits for wealthy recipients. Peter Peterson, a former Commerce Secretary and one-time head of the old Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment house, said that by limiting Social Security COLAs to 2%, the summiteers could have saved the Government $150 billion by the year 2000. "It would have meant $3 a week less" for Social Security recipients, said Peterson. "I don't believe that millions of nonpoor elderly, with pensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...McDormand and Sam McMurray) and their marauding kids, two fugitive brothers named Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe), and a bounty hunter (Randall (("Tex")) Cobb) who roars out of Hi's dreams as the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse. Poor Hi and Ed. Raising Nathan Arizona Jr. (T.J. Kuhn) will bring them close to razing Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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