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RECALL OF THE YEAR: Philip Morris cigarettes, because of a health hazard ... in the filters. Runner-up: Winnie-the-Pooh pull toys with a child- choking string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

When Bob Gingrich rotated back to Fort Benning, Georgia, Newt attended Baker High School in nearby Columbus. He quickly earned a reputation as brainy and eccentric. At Baker High, he emceed the school talent show, rattling off a string of corny jokes. The kids started booing. But he stayed cocky. If they didn't like a joke, throw money, he told the audience. He walked off the stage with $19. Newt was voted "Most Intellectual" in his senior class. In the high school yearbook, the quote under his picture read "Specialization may produce success, but greatness is acquired only through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard police distributed the original version of the suspect poster in response to a string of recent burglaries at Matthews Hall. Within a week, an altered version of the poster appeared across campus, in which the drawing of the suspect was replaced by a caricature of a black male and the words "Afro-American" were added to the suspect's description. All the other information was the same...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Group Takes Credit for Fake Poster | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...acquisitions. Next, Schulhof popped for a $175 million make-over of Columbia's movie lot in Culver City, California, and threw in daily deliveries of fresh fruit and flowers to studio executives. Peters was forced out in 1991, and Guber followed three years later. With little more than a string of box-office flops to show for the spending, Sony had to write off $2.7 billion last year in one of the largest such charges for a Japanese company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODBYE TO A PRODIGAL SON | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Arecent ad in the Crimson read: "An open invitation for open minds. What will be your journey? To see the world from a string of satellites...to help build a rover to drive across the Martian landscape...to help Nike just do it. Here's your chance to step beyond the boundaries. Goldman Sachs. MINDS WIDE OPEN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money (That's What We Want) | 12/16/1995 | See Source »

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