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...Nodoz," said Ethan E. Thurow '99. "It's a pure caffeine pill, and it wakes you up more than Jolt Cola. Who cares about taste when you're trying to get a paper done...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Students Struggle to Stave Off the Z's | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

...Woody Allen, who three years ago was show biz's most notorious middle-age male, keeps making movies whose plots reflect, excuse and promote his lustlorn escapades. Both guys are fallen idols who have trouble understanding what all the fuss was about. They want America to take an amnesia pill so they can get back to their work: being loved in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WOODY ALLEN: WHEN ART REDEEMS LIFE | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

Currently, the Teen Health Center, an on site branch of the Cambridge Hospital, offers 1,000 free condoms each month, as well as contraceptive devices such as the birth control pill and Norplant...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Conservative Group Forms | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...over last week's big merger--has been variously described as Darth Vader, Andrew Carnegie and Genghis Khan. Such comparisons, says Malone, have him all wrong. He's shocked, shocked by reports that he held up the merger--first by insisting that Time Warner do away with its "poison pill" takeover defense, then by demanding seats on the board--until he had squeezed all the juice he could from the deal. "The speculation is laughable," he says. Malone still came up with a great package: He'll swap tbs stock for Time Warner stock (his share of the total: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE THIRD MAN: JOHN MALONE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...three-quarters of a share of Time Warner for each share of Turner. It was expected that Malone would also receive "favorable terms" when purchasing programming such as CNN or Time Warner's HBO to run on his cable systems. But Time Warner refused to eliminate its poison-pill defense against takeovers, which kicks in when a shareholder acquires 15% or more of the company's stock, and reportedly declined to put Malone on its board. Without the poison pill, a large shareholder such as Malone or Edgar Bronfman Jr., who heads Seagram and MCA and controls 14.9% of Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNTING SEASON OVER? | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

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