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...glad I came back out even though I wasn'tthat helpful in the third period," Mleczko said."At least it didn't screw up the lines and we keptanother body on the ice. Maybe on another day Iwould have been able to take the shot instead ofpass to Bots, but I really have no idea...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETES OF THE YEAR | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...Unencumbered with guilt for making lots of money in flush times, he is also unburdened with doubt about the way he made it. And why should he be burdened at all? In an era when a great many less appealing and pleasant people than he blissfully screw others to get ahead, Richard did it the old-fashioned way, and with the woman he loves. Free of shame, he is also free to love his highly profitable girls wholeheartedly, which--it is clear for all to see--he does. He kept them out of the juniors because he wanted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proudest Papa | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...Morgue, suggested "reducing the constant loud shrieking to lower moans and an occasional modified shriek." At other times they took the stern approach, telling Howard Hughes he was forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture and make it as realistic, as exciting, as grisly as possible." Within four years the Hays system was kaput, and a new, tough Production Code was installed. Overnight, Hollywood movies went from jazzy to genteel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to the Dirty '30s | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...credit-card issuer, Chevy Chase Bank (whose portfolio has since been acquired by the First USA unit of Bank One), slapped him with four $29 late fees even though he regularly mailed his check two weeks before the due date. McNamara figures not even the Postal Service could screw things up that consistently, and he's convinced the bank purposely delayed processing his bills, a charge Chevy Chase denies. "They use low introductory rates and send cards to anyone and their dog," says McNamara, "and they have to make it up somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: On The Hook For Fees | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...plan assumes that government spending will increase at no more than the inflation rate for the next 10 years," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Almost no one believes that will actually happen." Meanwhile, Clinton pitches his combination platter as something future leaders won?t be able to screw up. Now that?s believable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Clinton Gets -- Gasp! -- Credible | 8/4/1999 | See Source »

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