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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the more callous aspects of his speech, Jenninger hoped to deal candidly with the reasons why Germans--with barely a peep of protest--allowed Hitler to wage a war on humanity. If so, Jenninger recognized that it is not enough to remember that the Holocaust happened. It is necessary to ask how and why it happened so that such a tragedy may never recur...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bearers of Bad News | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

...didn't expect Jackson to be on the ticket," said Doctor Frank Jones, Professor of Political Science at Texas Southern University. "The interviews of Jackson by Brountas was a way to placate Jackson supporters. I'm just concerned that Dukakis people could have been so callous with Jackson." But he too adds, "I think most Blacks will still vote Democratic...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Deep in the Heart of Texas | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

Strangely, though no other person was in the room, I did not feel alone. It was almost as though a ghostly spirit remained, an unearthly presence some-how connected psychically through ethereal vibrations produced by my callous dismissal of Harvard's financial needs. Almost as though a portal to the next world had somehow been wrenched open, permitting the spirits of the dead to pass through to this plane of existence. Somewhere, lightning crashed...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Senior Class Spirit | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...think the Reagan Administration should bearsome responsibility for playing with human livesand taking a callous and casual attitude towardsthe constitutional process of nominating andconfirming Supreme Court justices," said TylerProfessor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe'62, a former colleague of Ginsburg...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Profs Angry At Ginsburg Withdrawal | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...country fits that description. And through incentives to small business, Thatcher has opened doors to entrepreneurs. For all that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced, caring and imbued with a frayed gentility. Even some Conservatives have expressed concern that Thatcher has seemed callous toward the poor and the disadvantaged. For her part, the Prime Minister argues that she has turned a "lame-duck economy into a bulldog economy." Only vigorous growth, she insists, can support the level of social services Britons demand. The election, she said recently, was not a "choice between a caring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain All Revved Up | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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