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This purposefulness and focus on the future have stripped some of the levity from the freshman experience. "They're more serious about their education," says Andristine Robinson, associate dean of students at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. "I see better grades coming out," she says, but she also found that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hail And Beware, Freshmen | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

This summer, though, boaters accustomed to placid rides along the Tenn-Tom are complaining about the growing number of barges loaded with coal, chemicals and other freight. Since the drought has made the Mississippi more hazardous for some vessels, many shippers have turned to the Tenn-Tom, still easily navigable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Boon for a Boondoggle | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

No such charge can be leveled against Kupfer. In a striking final tableau, after the old order has been destroyed, he populates the stage with a crowd dressed in formal clothes -- like the Bayreuth audience -- mindlessly watching television as the conflagration subsides. The drowned Hagen lies unnoticed, a beached whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Love Among the Ruins | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

In the past, the P.R.I. has not had to worry much about opposition, and Mexico's immediate future depends on how it meets the challenge. The first test will be how fair the election is perceived to be. Salinas, 40, in an apparent attempt to dampen the energies of zealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Almost a Horse Race | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Other places have been attempting to have it both ways. In Los Angeles the 3,000-member Jonathan Club (initiation fee: $10,000) is being sued by the city because, though it admits women members, it keeps one dining room for men only. At some clubs the opposition to women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Storming The Last Male Bastion | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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