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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there is Ryan's sidekick, Loose leaf Harper (Brian Sands), who, we're told, dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Harper represents the daffy nonchalance of a mass murderer. Yet again, the plenitude of Big Themes hurts Wanda June, diverting from solid acting performances Sands, for example, portrays a truly crazy man and provides a refreshing moment of amusement with his string of "I don't know" responses. Vonnegut attempts to satirize the mass murderers of past wars by depicting them as ridiculous klutzes...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heroes for Zeroes | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...which final qualifying exams took place last week. Since all the national universities have a single standard exam, academic security is taken very seriously. Says Todai Physics Professor Steve Yamamoto, who has served as an exam proctor: "I asked the higher-ups what to do in case of bomb threat. 'Use your head,' they told me. 'The test must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Test Must Go On | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Racial incidents on campus within the past few years have included the vandalization of the Africana Studies and Research, and the disruption of Ujamaz, a predominantly Black living center on Campus, by a series of bomb threats, a broken window, and the theft of its sign...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Racial Harassment | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

...Nixon's motive was to protect himself against associates who might seek to disavow discussions in which they had participated. It was a high price to pay for insurance. Anyone familiar with Nixon's way of talking could have no doubt he was sitting on a time bomb. What could anyone uninitiated make objectively of the collection of reflections and interjections, the strange indiscretions mixed with high-minded pronouncements, the observations hardly germane to the issue of the moment but reflecting the prejudices of Nixon's youth, all choreographed by the only person in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: TAPES AND TAPS | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Claflin actually directed most University operations when then President James B. Conant '14 left Cambridge to serve as Director of the National Defense Research Committee and advisor on the Pentagon's atomic bomb research project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Corporation Member Dies, Led Harvard Effort in WWII | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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