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While most SASC members agree that the shanties served their educational purpose, they differ on the effectiveness of last spring's protest activities...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Serene Harvard: Divestment Without Shanties | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

Stephenson says the celebration he has planned will differ markedly from the 300th he experienced as an undergraduate. In 1936, the University celebrated its birthday with a summer-long series of erudite conferences on the future of academia that culminated in a three-day public celebration...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Orchestrating a Family Affair: Stephenson Juggles a Big Ball | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...applies equally well to two clergymen who are antipodes in almost every other way: Pat Robertson on the Republican right and Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left. Though both speak in the cadenced tones of the pulpit and address themselves to a constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises (or threatens) to alter significantly the shape and outcome of the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Faith | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...essence of literacy -- the printed book that started it all." Peter Israel, president of the Putnam Publishing Group, Inc., dismisses talking books as a "fad, certainly, but I'm not sure it's a real business." But those who have made a commitment to electronic literature beg to differ. Newman Communications Corp., one of the fastest-growing tape publishers in the U.S., began in 1981 with sales of less than $200,000, which leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...women differ sharply on whether the selling of magazines with nude pictures should be outlawed in local stores. The responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pornography: a Poll | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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