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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the United States should not fear the ending of its monopoly of Big Three summit dialogue. Sino-American relations are now firmly based on mutual interests that go far beyond a common attitude toward Moscow. Gorbachev and Deng will not emerge from a summit ideologically reunified or recommitted to joint support of subversion. In the Third World, Marxism has lost its attractiveness as an ideology and an economic theory; men calling themselves Marxists openly discuss what they can learn from capitalist societies like South Korea. However, even as the socialist economies liberalize, the fundamental disagreements still exist between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MoreReason for Hope Than Fear | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...check the Common Casting [brochure] to see if anything really interests me, but I doubt it," she said before the start of this semester. "I'm probably just afraid of rejection...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: From Box Office to Books: Salenger Off Camera | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

WHILE Harvard has exposed me to new perspectives, I should like to think that it has not forced me to abandon my conservative precepts. The problem instead lies with the many common misconceptions about the nature of conservatism--an ideology many associate with old, doddering men or reactionaries whose minds are like concrete (all mixed up and permanently...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

Indeed, perhaps pessimistically, humanitarian conservatism accepts the good, together with the bad, until time and circumstances allow for the attainment of the better. While common neo-conservatives mouth similar views, the humanitarian conservatives accept that people must move actively to bring those times and circumstances about. It is this belief that brings true conservatives closer to liberal reformers than to their heirs in the now-warped conservative tradition...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...hope that students, faculty and staff in the College use available opportunities outside the AWARE week agenda--staff meetings, senior common rooms, table talks, classroom discussions--to join in this community effort by holding an activity, lecture or discussion adressing some aspect of racism or ethnocentrism," Spence wrote...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffleton, | Title: Spence Asks All Faculty To Discuss AWAREness | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

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