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After allowing an early score, the Bison exploded for three touchdowns in four minutes during the third quarter. Senior quarterback Rob Glus, senior wide receiver Mike Philips and sophomore tailback Rich Lemon each found the end zone in that short span...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Primed Gridders Set to Skin Bisons | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

Gaintner says he is "very against" massive funds being taken away from Medicare and Medicaid. "You don't rob Peter to pay Paul," he says...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Harvard's Teaching Hospitals Rush To Adapt to a Competitive Environment | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...period before and during the Great Depression. The lies are rascally old friends: that bandits are decent, doomed boys; that bullets don't really hurt; and, of course, that whores have hearts of gold. Charley Floyd has served four years in the Jefferson City, Missouri, lockup for robbing an armored car, but his career really gets going when he and a rodeo cowboy named George Birdwell both try, by storyteller's coincidence, to rob the Earlsboro, Oklahoma, bank at the same time. Meeting cute is what Hollywood calls this: "'Sir, I was here first -- had my gun out before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Beguiling Outlaw Lies | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...ever less important in the world's economies; a job is a job, whether it be in Budapest, Buenos Aires or Birmingham, Alabama. Still, certain ancient human emotions have not yet adapted to the new realities. Some of the new expatriates tell of encountering resistance from their parents. When Rob Swift, 23, graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in international relations and announced that he had found a job in India, his mother offered to pay him to stay behind. And it's a safe bet that some of those spectators watching their offspring collect Harvard M.B.A.s wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Work? Try the World. | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Boyz released their debut CD just after the Milli Vanilli lip-synching scandal. It was a cynical time for pop music. Vanilla Ice had a best-selling pseudo-rap album; New Kids on the Block had gone multiplatinum. Were there any real singers left? Was everyone as fake as Rob and Fab's hair extensions? The answer to these questions was Boyz II Men. Cooleyhighharmony was quality, old-school music, and its success paved the way for a new generation of singing groups, including Shai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP: Boyz II Men: No Grunge, No Gangstas | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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