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...looked and felt sick Beautiful. There was fire on three sides with only the stretch straight down to the on can still clear. A row of homes on the beach were ablaze and the towering flames reflecting off the water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went out. It would leave a great scorched scar across the landscape...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Trial by Fire | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

...wisdom that "you don't go into teaching for the money" may still be true, but as at least one Harvard professor can attest, comparatively low salaries in the academic world are no longer a blanket rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...administration's desire for warm relations with the Philippines should not, and need not, be translated into blanket support for Marcos. There already exists in the Philippines a tradition of democratic rule and a moderate democratic opposition which would probably accept American ties. Thus unlike the dilemma apparently confronting the United States in some other developing nations the situation in the Philippines does not require supporting a right-wing-dictator to avoid a left-wing dictator. The U.S. can and should use its leverage to encourage a transition away from the decade-old pattern of martial law toward a restoration...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedurhamsn, | Title: Death in Manila | 9/22/1982 | See Source »

...perhaps the most beautiful ride I have ever taken, along winding mountain roads and through tunnels carved into the hills. All around us and below, the lights of Monaco sparkled on in the early morning darkness, like so many precious stones in the folds of a rich, dark velvet blanket. I thought of the princess, tucked safely away in her palace in this fairy tale land, and I thought of the words "happily ever after...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Grace's Story | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...their credit, few women's organizations have offered blanket pledges to support any and every woman candidate. "We are not interested in replacing mediocre men with mediocre women," says Kathy Wilson, head of the National Women's Political Caucus. She reports that her organization, the largest women's political group in the country, has been quite selective in endorsing female candidates. It has made support for the Equal Rights Amendment and the 1973 Supreme Court ruling maintaining the right to an abortion its two minimal conditions for endorsement; activists have opposed many women candidates. The caucus is currently supporting...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Fighting Back | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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