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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serpentine moves like a snake on water, slithering from incident to crime, pausing just long enough to consider its prey. Thompson has done extensive research on his subject, and quotes liberally from other people's remembrances, letters and other documents. But he doesn't let the facts obscure the phenomenon...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Snake in the Asian Grass | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

The original U.N. Convention on Genocide, passed on December 9, 1948, states the issue clearly, Genocide, "an odious scourge," is a crime committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group..." This convention was the direct response to Nazi mass murder. At...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

In a brief, pleasant interlude in what has so far been an arduous and often frustrating season, the Harvard cross country team spiritedly ran its way to a 22-33 drubbing of a depleted Dartmouth squad admidst the colorful foliage of Franklin Park yesterday afternoon.

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Trounce Dartmouth | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

In an interview last week in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room, Norman Jewison, director of And Justice For All, discussed why he made the movie--"I've always felt there were two laws in this country. One for the rich and one for the poor. I've always been suspicious...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Heroics For Some | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

But the book is no political tract, no sterile self-righteous condemnation of oppression. Rather, Burger's Daughter is an intensely personal vision of political commitment--and its costs. Through the character of Rosa Burger we sense the emotional toll of living in a country with epic conflicts, a frontier...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Marching Away from Pretoria | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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