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"My mother is the ground wire in my father's electrical circuit," says Michael Powell, the couple's 32-year-old son. "She helps him not get so electrified that he does something against his better judgment. She will not get caught up in the carnival. I can't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY ALMA DIDN'T WANT THE JOB | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

This thesis is hardly new--Vietnam has long been seen as the lesson that taught reporters to stop automatically believing government handouts--but Prochnau illustrates it in fresh, interesting ways. He recaptures the days when Saigon was still considered a journalistic backwater, a low rung on the promotion ladder for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A DISASTER IN THE MAKING | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Donald cites many examples of Lincoln's reliance on humor to get a point across and to diffuse a difficult or awkward situation. Donald describes how Lincoln used an anecdote to convey his wish that Jefferson Davis and other high-ranking leaders of the Confederacy be allowed to flee the...

Author: By Brooke A. Rogers, | Title: Digging Up the Details of Lincoln's Life | 11/2/1995 | See Source »

Build on a series of contained successes to make the council's role congruent with the power the College has granted it and to decrease students' expectations of what it is capable of doing (i.e., no lofty and ultimately disappointing claims of being able to affect tenure or University investment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.C: A Chance To Create Legitimacy | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

BAILING OUT OF THE WAR EFFORT was not a popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCE OF PUGWASH | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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