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...Harriman had run twice for President, been elected Governor of New York and served as a top adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Before his death in 1986, he encouraged Pamela to launch her own political-action committee and turn their Georgetown mansion into a political think tank where party officials and donors gathered to discuss issues over meals served by black-tied butlers. "PamPAC," as some called her Democrats for the '80s committee, raised $10 million for party coffers. A one-day fund raiser in 1992 at her Middleburg, Virginia, estate gathered more than $3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HER BRILLIANT CAREER: PAMELA HARRIMAN (1920-1997) | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...team won 17-16 versus ESU. Freshman Tom Kiler garnered the team's first win at the 134-pound weight class. Junior captain Joel Friedman followed with an 11-2 thrashing of his opponent. Sophomores Ed Mosely (158) and Dan DeVivio (167) also won as did freshman Frank "the Tank" Volpe at 177 pounds...

Author: By Nick Pilgrim, | Title: Wrestlers Prepare for Penn | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Even in the final fencing scene between Laertes and Hamlet, a fencing vest is worn featuring fake pecs and six-packs that would make Batman jealous. Later, Branagh's vest is removed to uncover a skin-tight tank top, revealing, of course, Branagh's chest hair. Not only does Branagh seem to wish desperately that he be immediately lauded as sex symbol of the decade, but he also employs some heavy-handed Christ imagery when he is carried out after Fortinbras' coronation. Branagh seems to be going for much more than an Oscar here...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: Branagh AND THE BEAST | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...raid on a southern Russian town, while Maskhadov is seen by Russia as the least of separatist evils. "Maskhadov will not press the problem of recognizing independence for Chechnya immediately so he is the best person both for Russia and Chechnya," said Alexander Iskandarian, director of a Moscow think tank. "He is more practical then other Chechen leaders." That practicality may mean striking another deal. Moscow has spoken vaguely of economic incentives for remaining part of Russia, and Chechnya desperately needs capital to rebuild an infrastructure destroyed by 20 months of heavy fighting. With the international community squarely behind Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chechens Choose A Hero | 1/28/1997 | See Source »

...that we understand we are only a piece of the grand brilliance which exists in this world. Too often we have gotten lost in our own glory, thinking ourselves much too large for the rest of the world. Harvard is but one institution; the complex is but one think tank, the students and the faculty are but one fraction of the population. And one institution, one think tank, one fraction of the population cannot alone enforce change, cannot alone make the world go round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time To Say Goodbye | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

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