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This leaves them with a decline in dues-paying members and an increase in taxes every year. Rich alumni may step in to help financially, but they cannot make the clubs popular as well as wealthy. The final clubs are on their way out, and quickly may they crumble, because...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Recycle the Clubs | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

Campaign '88 has yielded another nugget of political wisdom: never join an organization more controversial than the Boy Scouts or the American Automobile Association. Had Michael Dukakis known that membership in the American Civil Liberties Union would identify him personally with every position it has taken -- and some it has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the A.C.L.U. | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

It began as a monument to postwar idealism, but for more than a decade the United Nations has been repeatedly condemned as a cockpit of Third World radicalism and bureaucratic waste. Few critics have been more severe than the U.S., which for the past three years has put a squeeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations Peace on the March | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

There are about as many women on the membership lists of some of the nation's exclusive private clubs as there are in the lineup of the Los Angeles Rams. Not that life at such all male places is that strenuous; how much muscle does it take to pick up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Storming The Last Male Bastion | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Now, on to the more distressing aspect of your editorial. "Financial elitism" as practiced by the clubs entails charging dues that "not everyone can afford," so you say. Interesting. My first year as a member of one of the clubs I worked dorm crew, cleaning toilets for my extra pocket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Club Fallacies | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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