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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, John Fox, dean of the College, essentially dismissed the book as irrelevant for two reasons: 1) Its broader subjective conclusions are based on skimpy research, and 2) It fails to mention Harvard's new race-relations agency. He is correct on both counts in a strict sense, but ultimately mistaken is again distancing Harvard from the Brown operation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Harvard Image | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...Carter Administration (actually, it dropped from 7.8% to 7.4% during that period). Additionally, Reagan claimed that the percentage of Americans aged 16 and over who have jobs is "higher today than has been true even in the past in times of full employment." That is correct only if the comparison is made with periods before 1977. As Democratic Chairman Manatt acidly pointed out, the figure peaked at 59.4% in 1979 and by August had fallen to 57.1%, a five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Aim at Reagan | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...archdiocese were alarmed not only by the contents of the report but by the fact that it was issued at all. Said Conservative Jesuit Joseph Fessio, director of the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco: "If the Catholic Church has a view of sexuality that is correct, then the most compassionate thing the church can do is to clearly express that unambiguously. To let people think they can be authentically human and yet live a life-style that is different from the teaching of the church is really harmful to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Bay in San Francisco | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...Hairston said in response to a question about College officials' reaction to the guide's evaluation. "If the administration has problems with some of the criticisms...then it should take steps to correct the situation...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Black Guide Cites Campus Tensions | 10/8/1982 | See Source »

...There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes. If a theater poster announced an eight-year old Wunderkind even though Mozart was nine, who was Leopold to correct the error? Such was the perishable nature of his merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiting for Amadeus | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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