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...though, and after the first inanely repetitive 185 pages, the book succeeds in delivering a creepy sense of dread about our culture. Glamorama's contribution to the world may be the motto of its main character, a male model: The better you look, the more you see. As a sum-up of our decade, it's downright Tom Wolfean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glamorama | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...handwriting is on the wall for HMOs, and it isn't hard to read: A jury in San Bernardino, Calif., ordered Aetna U.S. Health Care of California to pay $120.5 million -- a record sum for an HMO suit -- to the wife of a man who couldn't get the company to cover his experimental cancer treatment and died. "The jury's statement is clear: Many people are just fed up with HMOs," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HMO Slammed in Record-Setting Court Case | 1/21/1999 | See Source »

...mission, no mention was made of the bloated bureaucracy at Fay House. From fiscal 1992 through fiscal 1998, Radcliffe's general and administrative expenses compounded at a 14.2 percent rate, according to the college's annual reports. These do not include the expenses for the capital campaign, a sum by the way, which has been far in excess of the norm usually spent on campaigns of its size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrutinizing Radcliffe's Financial Management | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...most controversial medical book ever, hear that, ever published." Or soon to be published, anyway. After a heated auction last month, Pocket Books won the rights to Kept in the Dark: The Killer Connection Between Sleep and Food. The advance was just north of $200,000, a surprisingly hefty sum for a nonfiction book by two unknowns (T.S. Wiley, a medical researcher, and Bent Formby, a cell biologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Coming Soon: The Drool-On-Your-Pillow Diet | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Eventually, Chik wrote the University a check for $385,000, $52,000 more than the missing Liao payment, Reardon said. He said he had no idea why Chik paid the additional sum...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Club Considers Suit Against Officer | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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