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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite some student complaints, house superintendents say the University's new policy for first-week pack-age distribution has reduced hassles at individual houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

Most of those accomplishments date from the show's first five seasons -- also known as the Golden Age. A young producer named Lorne Michaels had assembled a talented group of writers and performers from such cutting-edge venues as the Second City satirical troupe and National Lampoon magazine. Chevy Chase was the show's first star and formative influence, but the group effort soon produced a cornucopia of cultural reference points for the '70s: Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Coneheads, the Nerds, Belushi's Samurai warrior, Dan Aykroyd's Tom Snyder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: At 15, Saturday Night Lives | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...recuperating from a gallbladder operation, but the whispers have grown louder that he has cancer. Even if Honecker's political life is over, his successor | is not expected to deviate from the status quo course Honecker has set. The consensus among the Politburo's 26 members (average age: 68) is that a refusal to change guarantees stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: The More Things Change . . . | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Dinkins succeeds, New York would join the growing ranks of cities with black mayors. African Americans occupy just 1.5% of elective offices at the federal, state and local level, though they account for 11% of the voting-age population. But 22 years after the ground-breaking 1967 elections of Carl Stokes in Cleveland and Richard Hatcher in Gary, more than 300 American cities have black mayors, including 25 with populations over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Not Fear | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from such life-shaping factors as family background and IQ? And when do you measure alumni success -- at age 25, when young men and women may still be temporarily riding on the reputation of their colleges, or at 70, when such credentials belong to the distant past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Is An Ivy Degree Worth Remortgaging the Farm? | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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