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Another response to the tragedy: the House of Commons voted in October to tighten Britain's already strict gun laws, banning all handguns larger than .22 cal. Prince Philip, who opposes the law, set off a national furor last week when he complained, "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean are you going to ban cricket bats?" The Prince has since apologized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...virologist who directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, did not make it easy for our staff; he was concerned throughout the project that his work be put in the context of all that is happening in the field. It was only when science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean I'm Man of the Year?" he gulped. "That makes me very uncomfortable." Ho relaxed when convinced that his experiments with the new antiviral "cocktails" would not be touted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Dec. 30, 1996 | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...thought to be a human ancestor (though now considered more closely related to the apes). The discovery made them so "exhilarated and also utterly content with each other," Mary wrote in her 1984 biography, Disclosing the Past, "that we cast aside care..." She gave birth to their third son, Philip, nine months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Clinching what Reid Professor of English Philip J. Fisher called "the single most important appointment in literature at Harvard in the past 15 years," one of the country's foremost Shakespeare scholars accepted tenure at Harvard this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenblatt Accepts Tenure | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...other presidential candidates followed Rawlins in this order: Nelson, Haynes, Benjamin R. Kaplan '99, Philip R. Kaufman '98, Justin E. Porter '99, Albert S. Lee'98, Adam D. "Waka" Green '99, Eli W. Bolotin '98, Joseph G. Cleeman '98, David Goodman '97-'98 and William P. Pyonteck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rawlins Wins Council Presidency Easily | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

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