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Since Christensen, 43, started the Clown Care Unit at Babies Hospital four years ago, the project has grown to involve 25 trained clowns who make rounds at eight New York City hospitals. Two or three days a week, bands of these performers, dressed in mock hospital garb and bearing such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Treating The Funny Bone | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

"[Silber has] a breathtaking willingness to devote himself to domestic social programs," Barrett said. He praised the candidate for supporting higher taxes to support those programs.

Author: By Matthew A. Light, | Title: State Senator Endorses Silber at K-School Talk | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

In an October 23 letter to the Brandeis Justice, the student news paper, former dean Charles Alexander wrote that the university needed to spend more money and devote more administrative attention to minority affairs.

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Brandeis Dean Resigns Post | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

All three books are tilted toward Democratic candidates. Perhaps this is natural: 1988 was the Democrats' race to lose, and they managed it very nicely. Nonetheless, the authors devote too little ink to Republicans, who have won every presidential election save one since 1968. If reporters spent as much time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doing It on the Road | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

In 1953 the ascetic Crown Prince (later King) Faisal summoned his younger half-brother Fahd and told him he was disgracing himself and the kingdom. It was time, said Faisal, for Fahd to come home and devote himself to serious matters of state. Implicit in the rebuke was a warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: An Exquisite Balancing Act | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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