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...starts to concentrate on the lack of broccoli in the American diet, he or she may have problems dealing with the rest of the world as well as the country, although broccoli farmers may be pleased. Even Jeopardy rewards the contestants who know one word questions about every eclectic topic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farewell to the Attention Span | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...fantasies and realities. Unfortunately, because of a tendency toward pat set-ups reminiscent of an odd sit-com pilot and a vague sense of lagging toward the end, the audience was left thinking about the mental exercise of story-telling rather than caring about the actors' evocation of the topic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sitcom Schizophrenia Seizes HRDC | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...that all those moral issues have been settled, we can delve further into the topic at hand: Why did all of Yale's teams wilt like the California Angels when crunch time came? Here are several possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Number One Now? | 10/1/1996 | See Source »

...about. Since many of them were concerned about randomization--and although I personally was undecided on its merit--I worked in the fall term discussing protests and petitions against randomization, and I tried to arrange an information session with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 on the topic...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: U.C. Needs Student Backing | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Never mind the furor over the murder of rap star Tupac Shakur and the recriminations that are sure to erupt over the civil trial of a certain ex-football player. The hottest topic in black America, bar none, is whether the CIA was responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: CRACK, CONTRAS AND CYBERSPACE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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