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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson won in Michigan, where he drew widespread white support and beat the establishment candidate. Then came Wisconsin--more excitement, huge crowds, and whites saying that a candidate's color did not matter as long as he had something to say. But then Dukakis won, and kept on winning. The two who had the most money, the best organizations, and the least to say, found themselves on their way to the nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Transitions | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Unlike the Peace Corps, City Year was founded in a Law School student's apartment, not the White House. The program is an independent, privately funded venture, and Khazei and Brown drew heavily on students and faculty at the Law School when creating it. Even President Bok participated, appraising and discussing a 10-page sketch of City Year which the two presented...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: City Year: Banking on Young People | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...yesterday's procession, three Harvard faculty members received Phi Beta Kappa teaching awards: Assistant Professor of Mathematics Daniel L. Goroff, Associate Professor of History Drew R. McCoy and Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language Tasuku Monane...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Gordimer Gives PBK Address | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...creative forces in Harvard theater tried to break down the barriers between audiences and performers. Senior Randy Weiner's troupe Project Space Six (PSS) toured Winthrop House one night, knocking on doors and performing a short play in people's common rooms. PSS drew raves for its rap musical, The Gang's New Threads, which was really The Emperor's New Clothes updated to critique present-day fashion trends in Harvard Square. It was hip, it was funny, it was even socially relevant--and the all-original raps, produced in dorm-room jam sessions, were fresh...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Changing of the Avant-Garde | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...vivacious twelve-year-old who reads John Updike, finds Nancy Drew too predictable, and recites T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi in a clipped British accent. A pianist, she talks enthusiastically about her favorite composers, Bach and Mozart. With her charm, dancing eyes and radiant smile, Vera Zieman should be one of the most popular girls in her Moscow school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely World of a Refusenik | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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