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...skating career. He has played a large role in the organization of the annual Evening for Champions skating benefit for the Jimmy Fund for cancer research, which this year raised $145,000. Each year, Wylie has used his connections to attract such luminaries as Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, and Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner to Bright Center...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Twirling Between Harvard and Olympic Skating | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who received a lifetime post in 1989, was the first junior professor promoted within Harvard's History Department in 20 years. No wonder junior faculty members desert Harvard in droves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A President With the Right Priorities | 4/4/1991 | See Source »

...their time-warp wholesomeness. None is cuddlier than Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home (ABC, Dec. 21), in which the country singer twangs I'll Be Home for Christmas -- and is. Disney's Christmas on Ice (CBS, Dec. 21) brings Mickey and Minnie together with Katarina Witt and Tai Babilonia, while Richard Mulligan plays a small-town eccentric who meets an extraterrestrial (Beau Bridges) in Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (NBC, Dec. 23). On the classical side, James Galway and Frederica von Stade headline A Lincoln Center Christmas Gala (PBS, Dec. 19). And, of course, A Charlie Brown Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 24, 1990 | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...authority and showed a knack for picking up screenplays that other studios had wisely spurned. For an Old World producer accustomed to making budget-busting epics, the studio's ambitious production slate of twelve to 20 films a year was a script for disaster. One project, the 1986 film Tai- Pan, cost $25 million to make but brought in barely $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Of His Own Dubious Epic | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...situation may be changing in History: Two junior professors, Hue-Tam Ho Tai and H. Leroy Vail, have been promoted to tenure in the last year. But the English Department hasn't seen the writing on the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Lessons | 3/7/1990 | See Source »

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