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...following month when he received an urgent call for a rematch. Now he was to impersonate Carter as Reagan rehearsed for the campaign's pivotal debate. Said Reagan, after that encounter: "I lost every practice debate with Stockman. After him, Anderson and Carter were a piece of cake." At Thanksgiving, the President-elect phoned to tell Stockman: "David, I've been looking for a way to get even. I think I'll send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Cutting Edge | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...looked like. It looked like Claes Oldenburg's giant Mickey Mouse, like Andy Warhol's cans or Roy Lichtenstein's enlarged comic strips. Such pieces now have a period air of things meant to be consumed quickly-EAT ME! as the lettering on Alice's cake read. They constitute an art of rapid memorable icons that expected to be assimilated and exhausted in quick bursts, as indeed they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Farewell to the Future That Was | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...ever popular myth is that there once was, and might be again, a nice, neat division of powers and functions among federal, state and local governments. This wistful notion- known in political science circles as the "layer-cake absolute"- has never existed in reality but can be tracked back to some of the pro-Constitution positions that James Madison expressed in the Federalist Papers. Said Madison: "The federal Constitution forms a happy combination . . the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, and the local and particular to the state governments." That created the freedom to quarrel about which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: States' Rights and Other Myths | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Another 1-2 finish by Julian Bott and Dave Phillips in the 200-yd. backstroke clinched the Harvard win and left the 1-2 finish of Hackett and Countryman in the 500-yd. free as mere icing on the cake. The three-meter diving saw no personal bests or individual records, but Harvard still managed to sweep the top two spots in what Mule called a "clever crash contest...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Triumph To Even Old Score | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...Kristen Linsley and Mary Hurlihey took one and two in the 1500, a blistering pace set by Linsley, who finished in 4:31.09. Gretchen Klopfer cruised in fifth to put the icing on the cake...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Men Third, Women Second in GBC's | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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