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...upper left side of a famous person's face. Since I began my college career, our campus has been blessed--or cursed, depending on one's political position and the speaker in question--with the presence of everyone from Hillary Clinton to Boutros Boutros-Ghali to a whole slew of figures whose names on those red and beige Institute of Politics posters need to be preceded by phrases like "His Majesty" or "Her Royal Highness." (The Dalai Lama was actually billed as "His Holiness," which I thought was pretty cool...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: The Blessing Or the Curse? | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...Richard G. Seed '49, who also holds a masters and Ph.D. from Harvard--but no medical degree--provoked a slew of criticism with his comments made during a panel discussion on cloning sponsored by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seed Proposes Cloning Himself | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

What emerged instead was a fearsome slew of questions born of other disasters. As the slow search for debris, bodies and the telltale "black boxes" proceeded--a ritual so morbidly familiar from the TWA Flight 800 crash two years ago--speculation reached for existing paradigms that would explain the fate of a plane belonging to an airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Safe Harbor | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...than waiting (the nerve!) until November after the London, Milan and Paris shows. Calvin Klein immediately joined the rebellion, as did Donna Karan and several others. It's not unusual for Lang to be copied. He's credited with bringing us the stretchy T, rubber dresses and a whole slew of offbeat new materials. For this fall, tired of being the fabric frontiersman, he worked instead with layering--Can he bring capes back?--and unusual forms. His colors--white, black, camel and a zing of lemon--were like him: plain but hip. When: Fall collection in stores now. Spring collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Autumn Ascendant | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...years after their dismal senior prom date, he is doing so because he still carries a torch for her, not from an unhealthy obsession. Add to the mixture pseudo private eye Matt Healy (the wonderful Matt Dillon who nearly steals the movie), the bizarre Dom (Chris Elliott) and a slew of other comedic characters--and, voila, a hit is born...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's Something To Laugh About | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

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