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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Left Wing: Forget his 37 goals, his 1.97 points-per-game average and his ECAC Tournament MVP Award. Men's hockey forward Lane MacDonald makes my team because of his smile. The kid's got a grin as broad as Detroit, I mean Duluth...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Mark My Words | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

They come to the Institute with one common characteristic--broad experience in public affairs. "The Institute of Politics aims to promote a bridge between the real world and the academic community at Harvard, and the fellows program helps promote that mission," says Donovan...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: IOP Fellow Considers the Ethics of Journalism | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...sign of Washington's worry about America's vulnerability to spying was a decision by the National Security Council last week to launch its own broad study of recent espionage damage, including a reassessment of the Navy's Walker spy ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booze, Brawls and Skirt Chasing | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...integrate some of Harper's operations with those of his Glasgow-based William Collins publishing house, the result could be what Brooks Thomas, Harper's chief executive, calls, "perhaps the major English language publisher in the world." Adds he: "Rupert Murdoch has very deep pockets and a very broad view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDIA: Harper & Row . . . & Rupert | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Still, the proposal faces broad opposition, particularly from civil rights organizations. "We're redlining ourselves," says Raymond Johnson Jr., president of the Los Angeles N.A.A.C.P. "If this were proposed by a white councilman in Jackson, Miss., on the premise that it's black-on-black crime and blacks ought to pay for it, it would be a national outrage." Johnson and others argue that if well-to-do neighborhoods were to take the cue and vote to hire their own police, not to mention fire fighters, street cleaners and tree trimmers, they would be even more likely to oppose further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going It Alone in the Ghetto | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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