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...other universities already amid mammoth campaign efforts, the war is a more immediate threat. "I can't imagine there being a positive effect from the war," Dunlop says, speaking of Cornell's drive...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Economic Downturn Threatenes Fundraising Future | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

City Manager Robert W. Healy announced last night that he has appointed an independent counsel to investigate the legal options the city can take to stop Scheme Z, the mammoth 11-story highway inter-change the state has proposed for East Cambridge...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: City Hires Laywer to Examine Scheme Z | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...Bear, through three popular sequels, including the just-published The Plains of Passage, Auel has fleshed out the stone-and- bone discoveries of archaeology to create a fully realized world for her prehistoric heroine, Ayla. In the latest 757-page volume, Ayla sets forth from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches what is now the Dordogne, in southwest France. The region harbors a rich trove of ! Upper Paleolithic remains, including the mystically painted caverns. The Lascaux cave "overwhelms me," Auel says. "These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of The Ice Age Romance | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...stroke of midnight on Oct. 3, a mammoth black, red and gold flag rose in front of the floodlit Reichstag in Berlin, signifying that 41 years after its division, there was again one Germany. "We want to serve peace in a united Europe and the world," proclaimed President Richard von Weizsacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Ode to a New Day | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Midnight by Stephen King -- Novellas from the horror master. Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon -- Another plot-till-you-plotz spy novel. Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher -- Star Wars, WordStar, it all comes easy to this actress-author. The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel -- Another big woolly mammoth from the queen of ice-age romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Books for the Fall | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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