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...guns away from American citizens. In the Gulf War he made two clean kills, once knocking an enemy soldier's head off his shoulders like a cue ball. McVeigh bragged often about that shot. Then, on the second day of a 21-day tryout for the Green Berets, McVeigh quit, and soon left the Army altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

There is one business, strangely, that is not making money off the reading craze: publishing. Profits are eroding. Revenues are flat. At HarperCollins, profits fell 66% in the second half of 1996, and it is rumored that Rupert Murdoch, the owner, is looking to quit the book business. Other companies are cutting staff and closing down divisions. Industry executives agree that more and more readers are buying more and more books; a record 2.17 billion books were sold in the U.S. last year, up about 20 million copies from the previous year and 100 million from 1993. But the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEISURE: REDISCOVERING THE JOY OF TEXT | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Failure to implement universal key card access is the result of administrative opposition. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 should take the initiative and mandate universal key card access. The reasons for continuing restricted access are inane, and the reasons against it are overwhelming. Harvard should quit trying to square this circle: Let us go where we want, when we want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Needed: Universal Key Card Access | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

...Freshman Dean's Office knows it, the staff knows it and you know it: smoking is addictive, harmful and annoying. Quit equivocating on our smoking policy and take the hard line. Harvard should not allow smoking anywhere on its property...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Ban Cigarettes in Toto | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

...eventually life would return to its rhythms and routines, things would slow down, chairmen would take more power. But they hadn't counted on the reactions of the newest recruits, whose political lives began with Gingrich's call to arms. Mark Neumann stopped building houses in Wisconsin, Steve Largent quit his business in Oklahoma, Scarborough stopped trying cases in Florida, and they all ran for Congress. With no institutional memory, they showed up on the Capitol steps, promising purification. They don't know how to go back to the old way, because for them there never was such a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT IN THE CROSSHAIRS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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