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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Number-two seed Jonny Kaye dropped his first match of the season with a 15-10, 15-12, 12-15, 15-10 loss to the Big Red's Richa Chin...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Raquetmen Give Big Red Big Pain, 7-2 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Some families may not want to have two members undergo major surgery at once. But for the Smiths, the risk was well worth the possible returns. Says Teresa: "Once you've given someone a big piece of your heart, it's easy to throw in a little bit of liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: A Mother's Gift of Life | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...only of her own." At the same time, our present forward position is the end product of an equally long thrust of American expansion, which was propelled by the fact that our stay- at-home sentiments were seldom consistent: isolationist politicians, however much they disliked Europe, typically favored brandishing big sticks in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Look for an intramural fight over these questions the next time our ally Israel finds itself embroiled in a Middle Eastern war. It won't be pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Being Right in a Post-Postwar World | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Mikhail Gorbachev may yet pull everybody back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Being Right in a Post-Postwar World | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...LITTLE MERMAID. You could wish upon a star and not conjure up a more joyous animated movie than this graceful retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. In 82 minutes, it reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 11, 1989 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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