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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rhodes scholar and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Kinsley, 36, began writing for the New Republic at the age of 25. Three years later he became the magazine's editor. This week in TIME, Kinsley takes on the State Department and its recent decision to shut down the U.S. offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He won't tell us his plans for future TIME Essays . . . oops! articles, but we are braced for angry letters from just about anybody. We know what it is like to be on the receiving end of his wit. In a "TRB" column three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 22, 1988 | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A New Member Joins the Club | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Like water running over stone, the novels of Aharon Appelfeld slowly make a deep impression. Badenheim 1939 (1980), The Age of Wonders (1982), To the Land of the Cattails (1986) are imperceptibly abrasive, patient and stubborn in their scourings. Appelfeld's recurring subject is daily life just before and after Hitler's war against the Jews. The central crimes of the period need no enhancement, having been passed directly into the stream of conscience by the unadorned testimony of the survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Call It Sleep THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...ever expected America to age gracefully. How could the country of adolescent spirit, reckless politics, marathons, short skirts, unbounded energy and a restless imagination admit that its body is growing old? Not with Ronald Reagan in the saddle at 77. Or Joe Niekro, a starting pitcher at 43, fluttering knuckle balls past cross-eyed youngsters on a Saturday afternoon. Or Dr. Jonas Salk, 73, who developed the first polio vaccine 35 years ago, searching for an AIDS vaccine. Or Elizabeth Taylor at 55, flashing a luscious violet smile from a magazine cover. We don't have to slow down, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Dartmouth's alcohol policy was revised last summer in response to a Board of Trustees mandate saying that "organizations cannot provide alcohol to anyone under 21." Previously, Dartmouth had no official policy to enforce the New Hampshire drinking age, which is 21, on campus...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: On the Ban-Wagon: Campus Crackdowns on Booze | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

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