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Salinas, who earned a Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 1978, reportedly struck a deal with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo under which he would abandon public life to pursue work in academia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Office Denies Salinas Deal | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

Affirmative action has shady origins. Mysteriously, liberals somehow came to abandon to the color-blind ideal of the Civil Rights Movement and embrace the entrenched quotas, targets, and racial preferences of affirmative action...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: The Shady Legacy of Affirmative Action | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

...Pictures" focuses on Aleksander, who decides to abandon his career and move back to Macedonia. Once there, the film elaborates on the violence initially depicted in "Words." At the end of "Pictures," the young monk is reintroduced at the same instant as when he first appeared in the film. The narrative has come full circle. The events of the entire film have led up to its beginning. Just as in the opening, it begins to rain...

Author: By Jonathon P. Bonanno, | Title: Here Comes the Macedonian 'Rain' | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...moral of the story? The Crimson absolutely needs to hit the boards with abandon tonight. Allison Feaster, Katy Davis and Butler need to be active right from...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Brown No More? | 2/25/1995 | See Source »

Little wonder, then, that nowadays Castro's most frequent dinner guests are not fellow ideologues, but globe-trotting tycoons like Pierre Cardin, Ted Turner and Lee Iacocca, who can bring in the additional capital that Cuba desperately needs. In each meeting, Castro vows that he will never abandon socialism but also promises to continue holding open an economic window to the breezes of the free market. ``We have to be ready to conduct the necessary reforms to adapt our country and our economy to the present world situation,'' he says. Rough translation: until Castro gets his country up and running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEN FOR BUSINESS | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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