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...result of the decision handed down by Indge Walter J Skinner 48 of the First Distinct federal Court in Boston, Harvard may have to release information concerning hiring and lenuring processes...

Author: By Farah J. Griffin, | Title: Court Says No to Harvard's Request to Drop Isaac's Case | 1/6/1983 | See Source »

...these developments, taken together, have cast a distinct pall over White's administration. After occupying office for 15 often tumultuous years, the liberal mayor may face his roughest fight ever if he seeks re-election to a fifth term next November. "I will not retreat an inch," insists White. "I will be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Birthday-Party Hangover | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Instead of distinct friction between the religious factions. Salem says a nationalistic feeling began to unite the Lebanese people. He points to the unanimous election of the new President--Amir Gemayel as an indication of this unity...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene, | Title: A 'Deep Deep Horror' | 12/1/1982 | See Source »

...more at home listening to the Brandenburg Concertos than the Clash. A veteran of rock radio, Pittman is an apostle of "narrowcasting" and "psycho-graphics." He believes in cable's ability to reach a specific audience, in this case, ages twelve to 34, whose members offer a distinct marketing profile. Apparently Madison Avenue is being convinced. Although MTV has yet to break even, so far 100 national advertisers have pushed their products on the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cable's Rock Round the Clock | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

Such is the utterly subjective nature of home that the very word must fetch up a distinct and unique image and sensibility in every person. And indeed home can be many things: a house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels at home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why There Is No Place Like It | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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