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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Onward: From the career front, KELLIE PETROVA writes that after 22 years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLASS TRASH | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Harvard is not elementary school, however, and writing a few facts and figures on their palm won't get students very far on the Ec 10 exam. Sophisticated classes give rise to sophisticated cheating, and past Harvard students have proven to be very devious...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: CHEATING at Harvard | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

DIED. PAUL HENSON, 71, bold telephone chief whose costly construction of the first major fiber-optic network turned Sprint into the third largest U.S. long-distance carrier; of complications from liver cancer; in Palm Springs, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...School students were hostile and on his side. He has them in the palm of his hand," Hennefeld said. "From my perspective the B-School is entirely pro-business and does not consider the labor perspective. That's something we are trying to change...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: PSLM Tries to Subpoena Professor | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

...Gate suicides. They apparently began on the weekend of March 22-23, around the time that Hale-Bopp got ready to make its closest approach to Earth. That weekend also witnessed a full moon and, in parts of the U.S., a lunar eclipse. For good measure it included Palm Sunday, the beginning of the Christian Holy Week. Shrouds placed on the corpses were purple, the color of Passiontide, or, for New Agers, the color of those who have passed to a higher plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LURE OF THE CULT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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