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...botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLANT HUNTER | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...sketches, his Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader, that made giddy audiences squeal--for mercy and for more. Skelton, too, often dissolved into giggles at his own antics, even after his son died of leukemia in 1958. Then he laughed louder, once saying, "A clown is a warrior who fights gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...estate owed the company more than $7 million. An Arkansas woman's award of $16.6 million after being shot and paralyzed at a Shakur concert is being appealed. Even Shakur's father is suing for a cut. The prize for the most bizarre suit, however, goes to antirap warrior C. DeLores Tucker, who claims that lewd remarks made about her on Shakur's album All Eyez on Me caused her so much distress that she and her husband have not been able to have sex. She wants $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...often forget that Socrates was more than a philosopher. He was also an honored warrior and a prolific drinker. It is said that when he drank with his friends, Socrates would stand like a stone as they passed by the way. That is to say, he would drink them under the table without ever faltering himself. An impressive feat, to be sure...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Socratic Drinking | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

Zelikow, who will also teach History 1683: "Reasoning From History" in the spring, is a self-proclaimed "cold warrior," who "happened to be in the right place in the right time during history...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cold War Warrior Listens To Kennedy | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

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