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...what used to be the national pastime, before President Clinton lightened a Friday press conference by claiming that the new shooting guard for the Chicago Bulls would be the 6,100,001st new job he had created, before Chicagoans began climbing atop one another's big shoulders to tear the No. 23 jersey down from the rafters of the United Center, it was a Chicago White Sox minor- league outfielder named Charles Poe who confirmed the rumor. When Jordan walked out of the White Sox camp in Sarasota, Florida, on March 2, he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORE AIR GOES OUT OF BASEBALL | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...heart of this searing look at family life are strong performances from the only actors on the set with real film experience, Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison. Morrison plays a seductive and dangerously violent Jake Heke whose outbursts threaten to tear his family apart forever. Owen plays the resilient and fiery Beth Heke whose defiance and intelligence infuriate the brutish Jake. When a savage beating prevents her from appearing in court on behalf of her delinquent young son, Beth begins to realize how little Jake cares for his family. With the help of her daughter Grace, an aspiring young writer...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: New Zealand Director Explores a Clash of Cultures in New Film | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...chief sets the tone for the police department--which can either make the University a safer place for all to attend or be riddled with charges of racial discrimination that can tear that same campus apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Chief Can Surpass Johnson | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

After dropping its next game to UNH, Harvard went on a tear, winning nine of its next 10. Included in there are two wins over Columbia (which has never beaten Harvard), an overtime thriller at Cornell that turned into a 105-99 Crimson win and a 91-66 whipping of Brown--last year's champ...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: One Great Season For W. Cagers | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...anyone else. "I'm a true conservationist," he proclaims. "I'm one who believes that from the lands God has given this great nation comes the wealth of the nation." For too long, he argues, "protectionists" have built walls of red tape around that wealth. He wants to tear those barriers down so that it would be easier to tap-in a responsible way, he insists-into the nation's oil, timber and mineral treasures. Young's views are of no small consequence; he's the new chairman of the House Committee on Resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESSIONAL CHAIN-SAW MASSACRE | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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