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...Children's or the Holocaust museum? The carriers will cross the narrow bridges over the Potomac not once but three times in two days. On Thursday the group moves through the red-hot center of the city at 4:09 p.m., the start of rush hour, to inflict maximum harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: MAKING THE RIGHT ENEMIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...subjects ranging from number theory to combinatorics, and another publication is pending. For the past three years, he has placed among the top five in the William Lowell Putnam competition--a grueling day-long national exam in which contestants must answer twelve questions in six hours. Out of a maximum score of 120, the mode score for the exam is 0, the median...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Breaking the Curve | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...charges had been pressed, Szekeres would have faced a maximum punishment of five years in state prison and a $25,000 fine, according to District Attorney Martin F. Murphy...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Financial Scandal Hits Currier | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...maximum level for federal Pell Grants was raised...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Harvard Staves Off Aid Cuts | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Speck, who was convicted of the 1966 slayings of eight student nurses, spent 25 years in Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security lockup in Joliet, until he died, apparently of a heart attack. On the tape, Speck boasts about the murders. "Strangle a person? It ain't like you see on TV," he says. "You have to go at it for about 3 1/2 minutes. It takes a lot of strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARY A SPECK OF DECENCY | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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