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...prep school the youngster was the model over-achieving crown prince. He excelled both in the classroom and on the playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICHARD DARMAN: Driven To Beat the Budget | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Many of the women have a lifetime of experience to overcome. Rodgers' earliest childhood memory was watching her heroin-addict mother stick a needle in her arm. Until recently, Rodgers was lost in a haze of cocaine smoke and subsisted on leftovers pilfered from a fast-food restaurant. Now she sits in the Mandela House kitchen, which is rich with the smell of baking meat loaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela House: A Hand and a Home For Pregnant Addicts | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...since the accord was signed in Geneva securing the Soviet withdrawal, the operating word has been "symmetry." Last week the Bush Administration held a one-hour high-level review of U.S. policy toward Afghanistan that resulted in no announced changes. That means that Washington would continue to fund and arm the rebels as long as Moscow supplied Najibullah's forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Without a Look Back | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...emphasizing high standards, found himself so quickly saddled with so many embarrassments? Part of the answer is that, ethics aside, friendship and political alliances go a long way with Bush -- and with the rest of Washington. If Tower does not show up in public drunk, with an Iranian arms merchant on one arm and a female KGB officer on the other, he may make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendship Has Limits | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard Real Estate (HRE) Vice President Nancy E. Kossan said that cookies are not on their way. Instead, the University's for-profit arm plans to move Harvard's human resources division into the spot, Kossan said...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Thomas More Book Shop Closes Its Doors Forever | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

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