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...saying anything these days. They are waiting for the Iranian army to get here before they show their true feelings." All the commanders at the first line of Iraq's land defenses are loyal members of Saddam's Baath Party, and the men they command all belong to the Sunni sect, the ancient rivals of the Shi'ites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: A Fifth of Scotch: $300 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...this is meant to suggest plagiary is somehow acceptable, or that students and others committing it are engaged in much more than deceit. But it is to raise the question of the difference between plagiary and those other college papers which, regardless of footnotes or references, often still belong to others, blood and sinew, mind and soul...

Author: By Scott Johnson, | Title: On Plagiarism | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

Asked what he thought when he saw that the other Arab states would desert the Palestinians, he looks stricken: "In this moment, right here, I am ashamed to belong to the world." He considers what he has said. "If we escape, however, I think a new world will be born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Seven Days in a Small War | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Pleasures of Texture | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another, smaller book could be made of his observations: "The stomach is really the basis of nationalism." "The infallible test for a gentleman is to drop in on him unfed, and see what he does about it." "Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad." Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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