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That would be easier for Reagan to do if he were accustomed to working closely with blacks, women and others who might raise his consciousness on sensitive issues. But Reagan's inner circles over the years have lacked that ingredient. This helps explain why none of the five blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Sensitivity Gap | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

While the imposition of martial law in Poland has been resoundingly denounced by many leading Eurocommunists, the crackdown has failed to elicit the same kind of emotional response from Europe's pacifists. Accustomed to portraying the U.S. as the chief threat to world peace, leaders of the antinuclear crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Marching in the Streets | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Joseph D. Bertagna '73, director of sports information, said this week that among the possible alternative sites for the Crimson's home contests, B.U. and B.C. are closest, but he added that both fields have artificial turf, which Harvard is not accustomed to playing on. It would also be difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Away From Home | 1/15/1982 | See Source »

The Kirghiz--long accustomed to tending their herds at altitudes over 10,000 feet--have found the climate in Pakistan particularly inhospitable, confronting diseases they never suffered in their homeland. Already, 160 people--mostly women and children--have died as a result of conditions to which they are unaccustomed, according...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dreaming of the Alaskan Wilderness | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

At first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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