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...syndrome is not a personality trait, not a row of haggard faces bent over Cabot Library tables that readily double as formica pillows. It is, experts say, a combination of medical school admission policies and pressures, embedded in certain beliefs among the medical community at large...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: What Makes a Premed | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...decades of the century, when waves of women arrived from Lithuania, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Russia. For them, the New World turned out to be the cold-water tenements, sweatshops and street stalls near the station. The photographs of those women -- staggering under bundles of piecework balanced on their heads, bent over sewing machines, huddled with their children in the dank rooms where entire families worked, slept, ate and died -- have become images for the way many Americans think about women immigrants of that period. Brave, dogged, desperate. And heroines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Adapting to a Different Role | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

This movie is perhaps worth the two dollar matinee at the Somerville theater. But don't pay $4.75 to see it. Go to the original Shane instead. If you've already seen the original but are hell-bent on seeing Clint's latest, don't be surprised if Pale Rider disappoints...

Author: By Thomas M. Dovle, | Title: Pale Imitation | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...reasons. The Shiites desperately need the publicity and the vigor that hostage-taking provides to gain power, power which has been and would continue to be directed against Americans. The Shiites and those who support them are waging a war against the U.S. and our solid allies. They are bent on the destruction of the free world, a free world Israel represents in earnest...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Unite and Conquer | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

...years after Pedro joined the household, a visitor left a newspaper in the house that featured a picture of Dr. Josef Mengele as he looked at Auschwitz. Despite the 20-year interval, said Stammer, she recognized in the picture the gap between Pedro's top front teeth, and the bent head with which he gave his one-sided smile. Later that day, she said, she showed her lodger the photo. He turned white. That evening he admitted that he was indeed Mengele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

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