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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coverage wasn't Winthrop's only problem. A disorganized Winthrop squad also had difficulty executing such simple tasks as making correct substitutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Shoots Down Winthrop, 23-0; Cabot-North Rings Lowell's Bells | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

...might not like that. South Africa, for example, or a new economic order, or the Israeli attack on P.L.O. headquarters in Tunisia are issues where it is not a question of being anti-U.S. It is a question of taking a stand that we happen to believe is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Rajiv Gandhi | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...also the center of the more serious drama. Marty's involvement with his parents both in 1985 and 1955 is rather detached. They are objects that he passes judgment on, whereas Doc is the person he respects and truly cares for. Marty meddles with the past to ensure the correct future for his parents, but he also considers tampering with the past to change the future for Doc--in fact, to save his life...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Let's Do the Timewarp Again | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

Although such responses are predictable, they are also intensely ironic. Granted that, at first, the thought of implementing an honor code sounds threatening, its ultimate effect is flattering. The proposition rests on the key, and by all means correct, assumption that students possess the maturity to govern certain portions of their academic affairs without supervision. The establishment of a code would remove from the classroom babysitters we've by now outgrown. To reject an honor code out of hand because of its one uncomfortable, albeit necessary aspect--the responsibility of one student for another's actions--is to focus prematurely...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: No Honor, No Responsibility | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

...State Department quickly condemned the Katakov killing, saying that "there is no place in international discourse for this kind of act." It was a correct if somewhat magnanimous gesture. The Soviet Union has never condemned the kidnaping of American citizens by terrorists, preferring to suggest that U.S. travails in Lebanon were the result of Washington's misguided policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Loses Its Immunity | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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