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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condescension that "I don't think students have really grappled" with the final club issue. Fortunately, Harvard students are not so unreflective. The final clubs have been on people's minds for weeks--since one grappling student filed a suit against the Fly Club. The issue has monopolized dinner-table conversations and Fly Club luncheons for some time now. It's not the students who haven't grappled with the issue--it's the council...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: An Abdication of Council-ar Authority | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...charm in New Hampshire. As his standings in the polls rose, so did the candidate's spirits. Monday morning he bragged about having slept in, and predicted victory. That night he donned a grandfatherly sweater vest and joined Campaign Manager Bill Brock and two TIME reporters having dinner at his hotel. "Maybe Bush's huge organization is a myth," he gloated. He began musing about new supporters. "When are we going to get Uncle Strom on board?" he inquired playfully, referring to South Carolina's right-wing Senator Thurmond. "My candidate has front runner-itis," joked Brock. "He keeps wanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again The Man to Beat | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...that you've had your frozen diet gourmet TV dinner and played checkers with the computer, what other experience is left to simulate? Would you believe a video dog? A video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

They should certainly not be invited to the same dinner party. Even the Senate chamber is a bit confined for George Bush and Robert Dole. For that matter, the entire country sometimes seems too small a place to absorb the personal antagonisms of the two front runners for the Republican presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...stuff a sock into Bush's mouth. When Dole makes one of his sardonic asides that let observers know he is above the low company he is temporarily keeping, Bush appears so offended by the impropriety of it all -- no one made sharp remarks at the Bush family dinner table -- that he is momentarily speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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