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Signs posted at Tbilisi State University after the clash outside local government headquarters vilified Patiashvili as a "killer." The 49-year-old Georgian was elected first secretary in July 1985, succeeding Shevardndze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Georgia's Premier Ousted After Riot | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

James M. Fallows '70 told an audience of more than 75 people at the Brattle Theatre that the goal of his new book, More Like Us: Making America Great Again, is to make Americans examine "the extent to which the economic competition is really a clash of cultures...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Author: Culture is Key To U.S.-Japan Struggle | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...even though his fight with Congress over the issue had been a searing one. As the North trial focuses increasingly on Reagan's role in the scandal, it seems likely the ex-President will be called to testify. If Reagan breaks historical precedent by doing so, the clash between his past public statements and Oliver North's basic defense could prove painful and dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did He Lie? | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...book into a talking point. With the drama bringing more and more readers to a novel that most readers will find almost impossible to unravel, one is ironically reminded of the end of that classic discussion of faith vs. doubt, Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," in which "ignorant armies clash by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Prosaic Justice All Around | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...hubbub, with its attendant free publicity, increases the audience for The Satanic Verses, so much the better. The book is both an Arabian Nights narrative enchantment and a vast rumination on history, on the clash of cultures and individuals, and on the beliefs that people cherish for comfort and salvation. Author Salman Rushdie, 41, who was born in Bombay and educated at Cambridge, shows every sign of disproving Kipling's bromide about East, West and the twain never meeting. They have met, all right, in his experience and imagination, with results that are alternately comic, poignant and explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Explosive Reception | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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