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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right stands together on social issues, it risks falling together on the environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that...

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

BURLINGTON, Vt.--For a few brief moments here last night, it seemed as though the Harvard hockey magic had finally returned...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Stunned in Overtime By Vermont Catamounts, 6-5 | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Given the tragedy which marked most of these poets' brief lives, it is hard to imagine them as role models. But for the latest generation of Harvard poets--who have started their writing careers in the past decade--those prominent writers from the 1940s to the '60s have provided them with a sense of from and style which they say was invaluable to their artistic development...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...During a brief visit to the American aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, Bush called Gorbachev "a dynamic new Soviet leader willing... to think anew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superpower Summit To Begin in Malta | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Though many Harvard Square passersby showed brief interest in U.S. Citizens Revolt, the demonstration itself was joined by only a few auxiliary protesters. The small group that clustered around Moynahan's make-shift table, said protester Courtney Miller, was "a loose group of crazy artist-types" participating in "the soap opera of social unrest...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

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