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Whenever I meet an Asian student at Harvard, I offer the same salvo of ice-breaking questions: "Hi. What house do you live in? What's your concentration? Are you a premed...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Off the Beaten Track | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

...crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: An End to the Bloodletting? | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Though Klein has since been distracted by selling perfumes with names like Obsession and Escape, he's once again focusing on the jeans war, and his opening salvo is a 116-page ad supplement that accompanies the October issue of Vanity Fair. It is touted as the largest ad supplement for a consumer magazine in U.S. history, and industry sources say Klein spent more than $1 million to produce and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: What's It All About, Calvin? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...women's season began last summer, when Harvard alumnus Tommy Lee Jones invited the team to his ranch in San Salvo, Texas. Jones, who is well known in polo circles (which, of course, you know if you read Polo Digest) treated the Crimson to a week of lessons from top players...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: There's More to Polo Than Malodorous Cologne | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...attacking Israel. U.S. analysts have already detected the movement of missiles toward areas of western Iraq from which they could hit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in five minutes. Americans fear that Iraq could launch a salvo of 50 to 60 missiles, accompanied by an aircraft attack. Saddam, they say, would try to make it appear that the U.S. and Israel had provoked the attack, possibly by having an Iraqi aircraft drop a bomb on Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Saddam's Strategies | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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