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...studio boss acknowledges being "mindful" of a desire to do a film with Travolta when Fields' request crossed his desk. "When I get a letter from Bert Fields, right or wrong, I give it more credence," he says. "Should I have spent more time on it? Maybe. But if there is persecution in the world, isn't that a bad thing?" Several others maintain they signed to pose the same question. "If you asked me, do I know a great deal about Scientology, I do not," acknowledges former MCA president Sid Sheinberg. "But I don't think I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD'S GLITTERATI CIRCLE THE WAGONS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...report, and when he became dissatisfied with the Austin police's response, made a short-lived attempt to gain guardianship of his family's estates. Two weeks ago he appealed to Texas Governor George W. Bush to have the Texas Rangers take over the investigation. Murray's letter of request made some remarkable assertions--that someone is still cashing his mother's Social Security and Veterans Administration checks, and that someone is placing charges of about $1,000 a month on Robin's American Express Gold Card. Most damaging to the American Atheists, he claims that interest from the infamous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...growing list of popular "how to" manuals, add this release from the CIA, recently made public under a Freedom of Information request from the Baltimore Sun. The agency says it no longer follows the rules of the 124-page 1983 "human-resource" handbook, used to train security forces in Latin American countries, which includes passages on mental torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...difficulties with the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) on-line sectioning program, hundreds of students called the Expository Writing Office this week to request section changes...

Author: By Joshua H. Simon, | Title: Expos Sections In Chaos After HASCS Foul-Up | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

...that, despite the fuss over the Simpson verdict, the speech would go on as scheduled. One House Republican even asked if he could bring a portable television into the chamber so he wouldn't miss the verdict. Oddly enough, in a country obsessed by the travails of Simpson, the request was denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Call to Action | 2/4/1997 | See Source »

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