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According to Zelot, the NCAA will notify Harvard two days before it plans to test athletes. Inspectors, she said, will randomly select players off the team roster...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Of Championships, Drugs, Medals and All-Americans | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

Longtime Bush aide CRAIG FULLER, who was passed over in 1988 for the job of White House chief of staff in favor of JOHN SUNUNU, is now G.O.P. convention manager and controls the speaking roster in Houston. Fuller had offered a slot to Sununu on Tuesday morning -- not exactly prime time. Sununu's response was a predictable no. Fine, said Fuller, who declined to make a better offer. "It all goes to show," muttered one observer, "that what goes around comes around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sweet It Is | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...lives were to be marked with blue toe tags and given no extraordinary lifesaving measures. The facility was equipped with a crematorium. Automatic weapons were stored at the site, and Bourassa says he would have implemented a shoot-to-kill order to prevent anyone not on the site's roster -- even family members of officials or locals -- from gaining access. He also instructed the staff that saboteurs and troublemakers were to be ejected. "Radiation or not, throw them the hell out," he says he told the staff. "I don't give a damn what the radiation count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doomsday Blueprints | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Moscow the SVR has announced that its roster of foreign agents and domestic personnel will be cut 30% and that the remainder henceforth will concentrate on economic studies, background investigations of Western & investors and similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Spying After All These Years | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, George Lucas's kid-oriented adventure series, to Monday nights, supplanting two older-skewing reality shows, FBI: The Untold Stories and American Detective. In fact, viewers over 50 have only two places left where they are really welcome: on CBS, which still has a healthy roster of older shows (Murder, She Wrote; Knots Landing) along with newcomers like Bob, the umpteenth Bob Newhart comedy; and on Saturday night, where stay-at-homes can flip between all three networks and find such anachronistic offerings as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Jane Seymour as a doctor on the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Shows Live or Die | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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