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...most important grant awarded, hands down, was the $700 given to Harvard Radcliffe Television (HRTV), which will insure the continuation of the spellbinding, deep and meaningful series "Ivory Tower"--what would Harvard undergraduate life be without the soap opera? But the money will also allow HRTV to produce a variety of other shows, including "Crimson Edition" (a news show), "Survey Says" (a quiz show on Harvard lore), "The Common Room" (a comedy talk-show, like a cross between "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Show"), "Great Performances" (a rebroadcast of various student performances) and "Yard Tales" (animated cartoons...

Author: By Rachel L. Barenbaum, | Title: OFA Grants: The Wackier The Better Wacky | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

Particularly prominent from the restaurant are MIT and Fenway Park. It makes a great dinner spot before a formal, especially if you're feeling romantic. And if you're not willing to fork over the big bucks for dinner, the Prudential also features a nearly 360-degree observation tower. They will still charge you, though...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: What to Do at Harvard Until the Year 2000 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...resemble or duplicate in most particulars the memorable cadences and phrasing of the King James. For some two centuries, readers of either of these Bibles could feel that the word they sought was the Word, that they had access to the linguistic unity enjoyed by humankind before the Tower of Babel, "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POWER OF BABBLE | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...gone according to this plan, Jewell could have mulled around Centennial Olympic Park, making his way back from those pay phones to his previously-abandoned post in front of the sound tower. Then, maybe five minutes later, with room to spare according to his calculations (if this was the scenario), he would suddenly find his planted bomb, notify the authorities, who would secure it away as he helped clear the masses. It would be safely detonated as he would be hailed a hero who saved the lives of hundreds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If True, Allegations Against Security Guard at Olympics Are Heart-Breaking | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

Elvis Presley never made it to university, but now the ivory tower is coming to him. For a growing body of Ph.D.s, Elvis is more than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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