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...competitors also answered correctly, however. At the end of the game, the student from Arkansas walked away with the trophy and a new Volvo, leaving Madhavan in second place...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Sophomore Takes 2nd on 'Jeopardy!' | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

...hottest New Year's ticket in America. Originally limited to 60 families, most from the South, Renaissance exploded into public consciousness when it served as a social launching pad for an ambitious Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton. By the '90s, the intellectually stimulating but marginally too empathetic convocation of Volvo-driving superachievers was drawing six Southern Governors, a Supreme Court Justice and a waiting list of hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REACTIONARY ROMP | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...headlines: Seduced by a Prince and Killed by a Prince. Though the manufacturer of Prince cigarettes is not taking legal action, offended Danes are fighting back. ``Since thousands of people are killed in traffic every year,'' the Copenhagen tabloid Ekstra Bladet editorialized, ``why not print posters with Raped by Volvo or Abused by Saab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...noviye bogati, or nouveaux riches, are a small but growing elite numbering some 300,000 (a class of notables whom 13% of the country, according to a survey conducted by Moscow News, would like to see thrown in prison). These are the post-Soviet sybarites who patronize Moscow's Volvo and Mercedes dealerships, pamper themselves with Estee Lauder "exclusive skin-care consultations" and blithely plunk down the equivalent of an average worker's monthly pay for French champagne and Danish liqueur candies at the gilded- mirror displays in Yeliseyevsky Gatronom, the grande dame of Moscow supermarkets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...soldiers allowed the settlers to leave in their white Volvo. When Hamad asked them to take down the license-plate number, one soldier replied, "It's none of your business." Hamad's son Sadir, 26, asked another soldier, "How could you let him go after what he did?" The soldier replied, "This is Israel, not the United States." When Hamad's oldest son Haitham, 31, a reporter for the Associated Press, arrived at the scene, he phoned the office of the army spokesman to report the episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jun. 27, 1994 | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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