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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When undergraduate attendance at the Summer School dropped in the 1970s, the program began a policy of open admissions. Anyone who applies--and who can pay the $975 fee for each course--may attend summer classes...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Profit-Making Venture, Academic Program or Both? | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...firmly in power, not least because of the bedrock support of the 70,000-member Sandinista People's Army. As the name implies, its job is to defend the party, not the nation. The army is a well-oiled machine, its comandantes agile tacticians at outmaneuvering the counterrevolutionaries. Soldiers attend mandatory political-education classes, and most can recite, if not explain, the party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Decade of Despair | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...director's fascination with cinema blossomed at Morehouse, where he was the third generation of Lees to attend the all-black college. During the summer of 1977, Lee made his first film: he drove around Brooklyn and Harlem the day after the New York City blackout and filmed the looting. Even then, Lee's cinematic eye was drawn to the absurdity of events that unfolded around him. "In a lot of ways it was funny to me, like Christmas," he says. "People were walking out of stores with color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIKE LEE: He's Got To Have It His Way | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...question now is whether Tutu will actually make the long journey from South Africa to attend Overseers meetings...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Wisdom Dispensed From Mount Harvard's Peak | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...would thus take a Parisian time to get into the spirit of a Los Angeles traffic school where motorists ticketed for a moving violation may attend eight hours of driving instruction in lieu of court. At the newcomer's school in the San Fernando Valley, an actor named Dick Corbin provided diverting impersonations of a woman driver on the freeway talking on the car phone, eating lunch and doing her lashes in the visor mirror all at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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