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...follow family tradition, du Pont majored in engineering at Princeton and there met his future wife Elise, a finely chiseled Bryn Mawr student and Philadelphia heiress with bloodlines as imposing as his own. Du Pont retains fond memories of the cutthroat competition of Harvard Law School but only dim memories of what he calls his "very conventional" life before then. While at Princeton, he had a blind date with Vassar Student Jane Fonda but cannot remember what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Pete du Pont: A Blueblood With Bold Ideas | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Other lawmakers also took a dim view of theaffair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran-Contra Hearings Conclude | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...your brain needs something dim...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Rusty is also given to occasional delusions of Dostoyevsky. "I have seen so much," he begins at one point, brooding over his liaison with the murder victim, and then recites a litany of misery, concluding, "The lights go out, grow dim. And a soul can stand only so much darkness. I reached for Carolyn." As excuses for adultery go, Rusty's sounds more than a little pretentious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Killed Carolyn Polhemus? PRESUMED INNOCENT | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Should Aquino not issue the Executive Order on CARP, the chances for comprehensive agrarian reform seem dim. The majority of newly elected congressmen are landowners themselves, backed by the landowning class. As such they stand even less to gain from agrarian reform than does Aquino herself...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Farmer and Landlord Should Be Friends | 7/10/1987 | See Source »

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