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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without the lure of big names, the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report over 270 public television stations consistently provides TV's best discussion of public affairs. Robert MacNeil, once of NBC, is a refugee from network news ("aware of its frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Quality in the Off-Hours | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Way from Rugs to Riches | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said in an interview Wednesday that he plans to devote more of his time to research in his academic specialty of biology, "pulling out of a lot of formal work with the Foundation though still working with the problem of race relations on campus."

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Students Will Assume Larger Foundation Role | 7/9/1982 | See Source »

How to Beat the System: The Student's Guide to Good Grades by Columbia grads Kathy Crafts (summa cum laude!) and Brenda Hauther attempts to legitimized and even glorifies this unsavory approach to college. The authors actually devote a sizable chunk of the book to the art of cheating itself...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

Harvard has no civil defense plan of its own. In the event of a nuclear war, the survival of the University's population would depend on a newly revamped scheme that state civil defense officials predict would reduce the civilian death toll in Massachusetts by 40 percent. But many citizens...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: The Civil Defense Solution: A Long Trip to Greenfield, Mass. | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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