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...learned about the rally my friend refers to from a one-paragraph piece in The Boston Globe. Five hundred thousand people demonstrated and one person was killed as demonstrators fled police at a political rally in Santiage, the article said. Dove Scherr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chile: Forgotten Atrocities | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

...Dearest Dove, I am happy to hear you are well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chile: Forgotten Atrocities | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

...Reagan's staunchest supporters on the importance of keeping troops in Lebanon has been Speaker O'Neill. In a private caucus of House Democrats Wednesday, Samuel Stratton of New York, generally a hawk, and Clarence Long of Maryland, generally a dove, proposed a joint resolution to cut off funding for the Marines in Lebanon. O'Neill rose at the end of the meeting to make a grandiloquent and emotional appeal. "This is not the time," he cried, "to cut and run." He urged the party to put "patriotism above partisanship" and said he supported Reagan "because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighing the Proper Role | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...sexual harassment does not occur and for guaranteeing adequate adjudication when it does, and that the University demonstrate this commitment of combatting sexual harassment by moving to revoke tenure of Jorge I. Dominguez, Professor of Government. Michael Adams '84 Department of Government Michael Heller '84 Department of Social Studies Dove Scherr '84 Special Concentrator in Latin American Studies

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About Dominguez | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

Helprin's previous fiction (Refiner's Fire, A Dove of the East) has been characterized by precision and nuance. Here, gestures become poses, and narratives grow windy and precious. A woman "sweeps the pantry with her motile and patibulary eyes." "On infinite meadows in the black, creatures made of misty light tossed their manes in motionless eternal swings that passed through the stars like wind sweeping through wildflowers." The novel's conclusion is a collector's item: "What of Peter Lake, you may ask? .. . Was he able to stop time? ... At least until there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophomore Slump | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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