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...Sweet Hereafter (in which he appears briefly as a local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work to do. He'll quit teaching after this semester and move with his wife to their house in Keene, N.Y., not far from John Brown's grave. "You can start to see the horizon getting closer when you get to your late 50s," he explains. He has a writing cabin about a thousand yards from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Searching for a State of Grace | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Yatom, who resigned on Tuesday, had been held responsible for a failed assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan, a debacle for which Israel paid a heavy political price. But his decision to quit may have been helped by revelations in the Israeli media that Mossad had plunged Israel into yet another diplomatic crisis after a bugging operation in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss government announced the arrest of a Mossad agent caught last week trying to bug foreign nationals on Swiss soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Mess Sinks Mossad Chief | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

Heidi J. Bruggink '01, who had decided to quit smoking when she got to college, says her plan was abandoned by the third day of school...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoking at Harvard | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

Lauren M. Winkler '01, who quit smoking last month, says smoking was a social habit that helped her meet people this past fall, the first semester of her first year...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoking at Harvard | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

Winkler says her boyfriend did not like kissing her after she had a cigarette and asked her many times to quit...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoking at Harvard | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

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