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With today's issue, The Crimson moves into its exam period recession and will publish only three times each week. You won't be seeing us tomorrow morning but come Monday, we'll grace your doorstep once again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LESS CRIME | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

...hastened the militia's retreat; others, though, turned around and fought. One old man knelt by his shot-filled tricorner hat and fired ineffectually at the British until he was stabbed through the heart. Another, Jonathan Harrington, was mortally wounded but managed to crawl across the common to his doorstep before dying in the arms of his wife...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Patriots Day--The Revolution 205 Years Later | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

...their work that pours through her writing. Vendler understands better than any current critic that every good poem expresses the delight of its own creation. From reading this collection of reviews, it's easy to think that Vendler smiles every time a new book of poems arrives at her doorstep. This excitement fills Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, and is virtually unparalleled in the field. One critic has gone so far as to call her "the legitimate successor to R.P. Blackmur and Randall Jarrell...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: A Poetry Party | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

...think that thing is a menace," declared Jeanne Start, gesturing toward the towers from the doorstep of her house. "It ought to be shut down before it kills somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Legacy off Three Mile Island | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...harshest invectives, however, were leveled against the U.S., which was accused of endangering detente by placing new weapons not covered by SALT II on the doorstep of the Soviet Union. Fumed Central Committee Official Valentin Falin: "How would the U.S. have reacted if we, the Soviet Union, after concluding SALT II, started bringing medium-range weapons closer to their territory?" To drive home the argument, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported, other officials privately drew a parallel with Cuba in 1962. One Moscow editor told him: "There was a crisis when you thought missiles in Cuba could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: That Shrill Soviet Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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