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actually the purest branch. "Now, Hinduism...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...publicity as weapons, TNC prefers to use gentle persuasion -- and cash. "We have very little to do with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself a former real estate executive. "We have worked with them and even lent them money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Conservation's Best-Kept Secret | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...match Reagan's mastery of television. Nor did their well-worn looks do much to cast their party as the face of the future. But their very lack of New Age video appeal made them seem convincing as leaders of a Congress that will assert itself as an equal branch of Government. Now they face their real challenge, which, as Wright said of the President, involves not rhetoric but reality. Can they present an alternative to Reagan's agenda that is not merely a call for more spending programs financed through higher taxes and dangerous cuts in defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Live Opposition | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghost Stories Came True: CAMBODIAN WITNESS | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...tunnels run from Cambridge Electric Light Company on Western Avenue through the College to the Law School's Langdell Hall. One branch travels through the Weeks footbridge to the Business School. The poorly lit corridor passes through the hollow interior of the bridge and is sealed off from the main passageways by locked doors...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Tales of the Tunnels | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

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