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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Iranian students, with the approval of Ayatullah Khomeini [Nov. 19], seem to be proving that Islam is-at least in the Iranian version-a religion that emphasizes revenge rather than forgiveness. They evidently consider revenge on one very ill man the ideal to put first in the life of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Your Money by Richard Phalon. The reader who follows all of Phalon's advice may or may not "minimize his tax bite and manage himself into a surplus" as the author promises, but he will have had a good time for his $8.95. Explaining that loan rates can be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Qualities like honor, integrity, and courage don't own a place in Davis's lexicon of human motivation. She coins the term "mediapolitics"--which, we're told, signifies "the inseparable relationship between the media and the government"--and then assumes that such a relationship will turn cozy and manipulative, the...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Rosovsky will use his influence to accelerate recruitment by focusing on departments where minority and women tenured faculty are least represented and by meeting routinely with the tenure search committees in these departments to make sure they consider all women and minorities qualified for available tenured posts.

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Rosovsky to Promote Affirmative Action | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Consider: the album is ostensibly a story, a kind of opera, like "Sergeant Pepper." Everything sounds happy and clean and pure and good, but listen to what they're saying and the heavy drug overtones come through unmistakably. On "Kinda Looks Like Christmas," for example, you get:

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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