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NAME: Rush Limbaugh OCCUPATION: Radio talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Read listener's e-mail on air that expressed the hope that Charles Grodin, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Rivera would have "simultaneous strokes" leaving them "without the gift of speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Somehow, Social Security reform doesn't attract the same audience. "This was our national soap opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pundits: Out of Gas? | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...society. The closing of final clubs as social options harms Harvard in its mission to prepare students for the outside world. These new restrictions on final clubs' visitors force Harvard to do whatever they can as soon as possible to improve students' social lives on campus. RUSSELL D. RIVERA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Clubs' Closing Reduces Social Opportunities | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...deserve some blame, but I do not hold the fraternity or its members primarily accountable. In this litigious world, people are too quick to absolve themselves and point the finger at someone or some group instead of trying to determine how they may have played a role. RUSSELL D. RIVERA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frat Not Wholly Responsible | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...helped democratize the world of talk shows; it wasn't quite the fall of the Berlin Wall, but an important barrier was breached. Here, finally, was a woman--a black woman, a plus-size woman, a woman with an attitude--holding the mike and holding forth. Says Geraldo Rivera, host of CNBC's Rivera Live and Upfront Tonight: "Oprah was the first host of any daytime talk show who looked and sounded like her audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queen of All Media | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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