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Like another doomed (and much more enjoyable) summer movie, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: China Seizure Shanghai Surprise | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Yet few others deny that the school's reputation still flourishes, if only as a mystique accumulated through time, like the water particles that make up an imposing cloud. "The very name Harvard has a kind of resonance," says Alumna Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago. Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday, Fair Harvard! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Roger Lambert, 52, is an assistant professor at a divinity school in a Northeastern U.S. city that sounds, as he describes it, a lot like Boston. He is also an ordained Methodist minister, although he gave up active duty 14 years earlier, after the love affair that scandalized his parishioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Theology and the Computer Roger's Version | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Unlike some of his colleagues who agonize over each opinion and stagger under the court's case load, Rehnquist is known for quickness and efficiency. On most days he leaves the court at 3 p.m. to go swimming. He finds time for stamp collecting and oil painting (indeed, he skipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Mr. Right | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

Few professors bother to read student work, and grading is usually left to bored, underpaid (and, in more than one case, unintelligent) graduate and undergraduate section leaders, who rarely give much time or thought to grading papers and exams. A recent 11-page paper I wrote for Albert Craig and...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Cult of Mediocrity | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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