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Donato's honor is not the first that Drury has received in his history as a hockey player. The Greenough resident represented the United States on the 16-, 17- and 18-year-old Select teams in high school, and played with Harvard teammate Chuckie Hughes on the U.S. Junior National team in Helsinki last December...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Sitting And Watching as The ECAC Playoffs Approach | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

Safire turned 60 in December, and he makes no secret of his ambition: 20 more years opining on deadline. "I have the greatest job in the world," he declares. "I'm free to write, to select my subject and say anything I want about the subject. That's freedom. Freedom's a big thing for me." The tribal bonds between Safire and the Times are intense. It is odd to recall the epithets that greeted his ill-timed arrival in the midst of Watergate; Safire's critics could not decide what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILLIAM SAFIRE: Prolific Purveyor Of Punditry | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...would Bush play such an opportunity? A G.O.P. dream scenario runs like this: Bush (obviously) avoids choosing a trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Big Tent Around Abortion | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy new magazine, Audio/ Video Interiors, regularly dazzles its readers with images of posh pleasure domes of sound and light. Says John Briesch, president of Sony's Consumer Products Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants to Wait for HDTV? | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Democratic Party would do best to select a candidate who believes that Jackson's campaign was not a weakness, but a strength...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: The Real `Jackson Problem' | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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