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...victories over Brown and Yale cap a long stretch of road games for Harvard. The Crimson has played 12 of its last 13 games on the road, a string of contests which dates back to December 6. Harvard was 9-4 during that period...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: The Streak Lives: W. Cagers Thump Brown, Yale | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...jurors can find Simpson guilty if they decide that he probably murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion, Ronald Goldman. Only nine of the 12 jurors need agree on the verdict. In his closing statement, Daniel Petrocelli, the lawyer for Ronald Goldman's father, delivered a string of snide accusatory one-liners that kept the audience chuckling. Key to the case's outcome are charges by the defense that evidence against Simpson was manipulated by Los Angeles police and the prosecution's last-minute presentation of 30 photos showing O.J. Simpson in Bruno Magli shoes similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J.: It's Almost Over | 1/28/1997 | See Source »

...announcement is the latest in a string of appointments over the last six years which has turned Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department into the most prominent in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bobo Hired In Afro-Am, Sociology | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

...reporting and writing our package--which includes an update on the worldwide epidemic, a report on the impact of the new drugs on AIDS victims and an essay by playwright-screenwriter Paul Rudnick--went to a team of science journalists already highly informed, having produced a string of AIDS cover stories. Staff writer Christine Gorman, who wrote what she calls the "medical detective story," covered the first international AIDS conference for TIME in 1985. "Back then all the scientists and all the journalists could fit into one room," she recalls. She met Ho six years ago, and was immediately struck...

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

Flamboyance did not breed success, however, and he had a string of convictions. Picked up yet again in a Dayton's department store the day after Thanksgiving--opening bell of the Christmas shopping season--he offered to snitch on the Dicks. Once, he said, he enjoyed such a close relationship with them that they bailed him out of jail. But now he professed embitterment at lowball paybacks. One policeman admitted, "I was a little surprised that he was giving up a source of his income." But when Thomas, dialing from memory, called the Dick residence with the offer of merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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