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...addition to the five Harvard representatives--all outstanding forwards--Team USA includes names collegiate hockey fans are well familiar with. Marty McInnis, Dave Emma, Steve Heinz, Keith Tchakuk and slew of other slick scorers will all take the ice tonight...

Author: By John B. Trainer and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Icemen Battle Team USA | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

DYNASTY: THE REUNION (ABC, Oct. 20 and 22, 9 p.m. EDT). And while the Series unfolds, ABC and NBC are counterprogramming with a slew of female-oriented movies and mini-series. Here, the Carringtons and Colbys return for a fresh segment of Lifestyles of the Rich and Once-Famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 21, 1991 | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...president of his own Morristown, N.J., consulting firm, Polyconomics, Wanniski has tried to draw attention to his quirky brainchild by bashing a slew of famous journalists of both the left and right while fawning over the Washington Times, the right-leaning newspaper owned by members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. His attacks do not appear to have inflicted serious damage on the careers of either Lewis H. Lapham, liberal editor of Harper's, or William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editor of National Review. But then, Wanniski has been putting out the guide for only six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Media's Wacky Watchdogs | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Evil and good have probably been more or less constant presences in the human heart, their proportions staying roughly the same over the centuries. And perhaps the chief dark categories have remained constant and familiar. The first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. "Two men," says Elie Wiesel, "and one of them became a killer." The odds have presumably been fifty-fifty ever since. The Old Testament is full of savageries that sound eerily contemporary. (The British writer J.R. Ackerley once wrote to a friend, "I am halfway through Genesis, and quite appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...Democratic candidate should slam Bush for breaking a slew of promises to protect the environment (Gore's pet issue) and to increase funding for education (Clinton's). The Democrats should continue to fight for stronger gun control laws, especially now that Ronald Reagan has partially relented on the issue. The popular Dukakis plan to extend health insurance to the 37 million uninsured Americans could also be revived...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over | 4/12/1991 | See Source »

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