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...There's more to Harvard history than just glory," Hartman says. But because "very few people outside Harvard aren't overwhelmed" by the place, he says the media coverage has failed to unearth the skeletons in the University's closet. "It tends to identify with Harvard's glory," Hartman says...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Learning How to Read, Write and Rewrite | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front door, she said, "I could hear all the clerks screaming as they were shot." Another employee escaped by locking herself in a vault where stamps are kept. Two other survivors hid in a broom closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Pat's Revenge | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Tails the Mexican Pet | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Such excess, suggests Serpell, leads to the still prevalent view that demonstrative affection for animals is peculiar, if not unnatural. In 16th century Europe, women who talked to animals ran the risk of being incinerated for witchcraft. Today the ardent pet enthusiast is suspected of being a closet misanthrope. Not necessarily. The author's reading of available data tends to a more positive interpretation: "a vague suggestion that some pet-owners, for reasons which are unclear, may have a greater desire for company and friendship and because of this use their pets to augment what they already derive from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Theories and Pet Peeves in the Company of Animals by James Serpell | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...politics are difficult to label, which could be a virtue for a Democrat seeking national office these days. When he called out the National Guard to quell a violent 1983 contract dispute in Arizona's copper industry, Babbitt stirred suspicions among some liberal Democrats that he is a closet Republican. A critic of government entitlement programs spawned by Democratic lawmakers, Babbitt proposes that most government benefits, from Social Security to farm subsidies, be "means tested." That idea, even when coupled with a pledge of support for the family farm, did not endear Babbitt to some of Iowa's hard-pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biker Babbitt | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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