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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their team was pretty solid," Boyum noted. "They could have played their order backward and it wouldn't have mattered--they were pretty consistent up the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Squash Nips Brown | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

...better example of the tangible benefit from veneration for education can be found than in the Jewish community in America. Beer points out the similarity in the two group's American backgrounds: "Both Jews and Black Americans came from impoverished and backward ghettos. Both were subject to severe legal and informal harassment for centuries, not to mention periodic slaughter.... Some find it incredible that Jews come from a background similar to theirs...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Reaffirming Affirmative Action | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

Practices aside, the issue is not whether individuals have the right to join exclusive organizations. It is simply a question of whether students are willing to stand behind the principles that Harvard is founded upon. By joining a final club, a student is taking a giant step backward, a step into a past where women were treated as inferiors and elites possessed special privileges...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Think Hard | 11/25/1985 | See Source »

...wreckage. The Newstour met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and aging Premier Pham Van Dong. In an interview that is excerpted in the World section, an intransigent Pham seemed unwilling to compromise on any aspect of his country's aggressive policy toward Kampuchea or its backward socialist economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Nov. 11, 1985 | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson and Julia Kristeva. The result is a surprisingly accessible sourcebook on the fallout of postmodern self-expressionism that tries to rescue semiotics from exclusive...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Reading Between The Signs | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

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