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...merchandising bonanza prompted by a name change could bring in untold millions more. Undoubtedly, every student, alum, and Crimson enthusiast (I suppose the color could stay) would want to take home a piece of the new brand-name of elite academia. Added to this would be the stampede of the sentimentalists and investors wishing to get hold of vintage H-clad "collector's items" while they last--Everything Must...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: The Politics and Power of a Name | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...says he delivered the money in bags to Bucaram's secretary Oscar Celleri, who remains at large. That self-imposed severance pa ckage is just one portion of what the current government says was a scourge of corruption in which Bucaram and his aides cheated Ecuador out of untold millions during his six months in office. On Friday, the Supreme Court charged Bucaram and four top ai des with corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and influence peddling in a case involving the alleged mishandling of $88 million in a government security fund. Welfare Minister Gustavo Baquero claims an audit of his ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Parachute | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...been dictated by conscience, why is our China policy so remarkably unconscionable? China was awarded in spite of its hostility toward Taiwan last year, its foot-dragging in releasing and pardoning the Tiananmen dissidents, its limitations on the number of children parents are allowed to have and other untold abuses on the lives of Chinese citizens...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: The Cuba/China Contradiction | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

...Attitude. While airline personnel commit untold acts of kindness, the pressure of more work for relatively less pay is telling. After her flight was delayed for 7 1/2 hours (five of which passengers were held on board), a publicist from Orlando, Florida, was particularly irritated by the hostile attitude of the crew. "When you travel, you have to roll with it," she says. "But they were miserable, so they were going to make everyone miserable." Mission accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELCOME ABOARD--OR PAY UP, SIT UP AND SHUT UP | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...safe sex and clean needles, because these methods rely on persistent behavioral patterns in a creature who is often unreliable, unable to judge risk accurately or irrationally convinced that he is immortal and invincible. The solution to stopping the spread of AIDS is a vaccine to prevent further untold, unspeakable pain, suffering and economic hardship. The task is to develop a vaccine, not a cure. SARAH E. BLACKWELL London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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