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Establishing an interdisciplinary concentration would necessitate a radical change in the administration's philosophy concerning Latin American studies, "a development which I don't see happening. Harvard has had a strong reputation as a bastion of Anglo-Saxon history with a bias in European studies," says James Brennan, a Latin American history graduate student...
Despite the persuasive force of these studies, Hellman admits, "the consensus among U.S. physicians is still in favor of mastectomy." Indeed, his own institution, Sloan-Kettering, has long been a bastion of radical surgery. A survey conducted in 1980-81 by the National Cancer Institute found that 80% of breast cancer patients in Atlanta and Detroit were being treated with a modified radical mastectomy, an operation in which the breast and some chest muscle are removed. Up to 5% were still being treated with the old-style radical mastectomy, in which so much pectoral muscle is removed that arm motion...
...rest any questions about U.S. motives for the invasion. Late last week the State Department finally released 196 pages of its vast stockpile. The documents did not quite represent the "smoking gun" needed to substantiate President Reagan's claim that Grenada was being transformed into a "major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy." But the papers did offer solid evidence that Grenada's Marxist government had grown increasingly reliant on its connections with Cuba, the Soviet Union and North Korea, especially for arms. Together with other documents seen by TIME last week, the State Department...
...Soviet successes in the Third World. Both U.S. strategic interests and the welfare of Grenada and its neighbors are well served, the Administration's argument goes, by ejecting the Cubans and their East-bloc partners. Grenada "was a Soviet-Cuban colony being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy," Reagan said in his televised speech last Thursday. "We got there just in time...
Eight of Tyler's 20 selections were first published in The New Yorker, but even that bastion of the shimmering sentence had to make room for the brusquer talents of Raymond Carver and his ilk. Carver describes scenes and moods so sparely he appears to be hoarding his words, as if expecting to put them to better use. From "Where I'm Calling From...