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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sept. 19, he will make the holy trek. He will seek salvation in Las Vegas. The fallen former heavyweight champ is scheduled to ask the Nevada Athletic Commission to reinstate his boxing license. It's the fight of his life, not counting his 1992 rape conviction, and if a random sampling of gamblers is any indication, he's going to win. Henry Beste, 41, an actor who lives here, explained it in two words: "It's Vegas...
Finally, on a different note, keep the approachability of Orientation Week going as long as possible. Right now, you won't be seen as strange if you sidle up to a random first-year in Annenberg over lunch and strike up a conversation. But naturally, at some point--in our experience, after six to eight weeks--that will become a bit odd. You'll have your friends, maybe even your table, and those new meetings will become all too rare...
David Kaczynski is a million dollars richer, but he probably doesn't feel like a rich man. The money is the reward for turning in the Unabomber -- his older brother Ted -- who spent 17 years victimizing total strangers through a series of seemingly random bombs sent through the U.S. postal system. David plans to give the government-funded reward to the victims? families. The attacks started in 1978 and ended with Ted's capture in 1996, but not before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss...
...days after Random House Modern Library released a controversial list of its picks for the top 100 books of the twentieth century, students at the Radcliffe Publishing Course released their own version of the list Tuesday, which includes more women authors and a more diverse selection of works...
Hitler and the holocaust remain the 20th century baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...