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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reeves is the first and only one of its kind in Britain -- a hotel designed exclusively for women. Though the owners cannot by law refuse male guests, no man has stayed in the rooms, which cost about $75 a night, or been served in the bar since the hotel opened in February 1988. "We're not hostile to men," says manager and co-owner Carole Reeves. "We're just trying to put women first. Men's needs are catered to quite adequately in other hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Room of Her Own | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...many cannot seem to shed the nagging feeling that they went wrong somewhere, that they have betrayed the ideals of their youth. This is exactly the kind of emotion Anthony M. Casale and Phillip Lerman tap into in their new book Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Fantasies of a Generation That Can't Forget Its Past | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

Hama Rules are the only ones that apply in the Middle East, but the U.S. cannot understand them. Players obeying the Hama Rules orchestrated the 1983 suicide truck bombing attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut. Even Israel follows the rules--it invited Phalangist militia into the Lebanese towns of Sabra and Shatila and failed to stop the massacre of up to 1000 people...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Journey Through a Troubled Region | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: Grader's Reply: It's Not Really That Easy | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

Walesa has been trying for a week to persuade the Peasant Party, led by Malinowski and aligned with the Communists in parliament, to join in a non-Communist coalition. Walesa has said he cannot support any government formed by Kiszczak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polish Leader Abandons Bid for Coalition | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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