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Many undergraduate research assistants echo Kolko's sentiments that the professors who employ them have tried hard to make the experience worthwhile...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: The Elite Academic Underclass: | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...however, chooses to employ motifs even more basic to Western civilization, and for that matter, mainstream Hollywood moviemaking. The last fifteen minutes of the film are a testament to the moral cleansing power of the family. Gilliam, at absolute rock bottom, turns to Indigo in what begins as one of the film's most powerful scenes and quickly deteriorates into one of its most unbelievable. Gilliam begs Indigo, whom he had not seen or spoken to in over a year, to take him back. "I love you," he tells her for the first time, "I want...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Spike's Mo' Commercial This Time | 8/10/1990 | See Source »

...Giant is one of a new class of faster, higher and wilder roller coasters roaring onto the amusement-park scene this summer. Far more terrifying than rides of old, the megacoasters, with names like Viper, Iron Wolf and Georgia Cyclone, employ computer technology, ultramodern materials and aerobatics to deliver a plexus punch to those brave enough to step aboard. Park operators are also souping up old coasters and bringing others out of mothballs in a race to produce the terrifying rides. A total of 176 coasters are running in the U.S., up from 147 in 1978 and the most since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Roller Coasters... Eeeeeyyooowiiii!!! | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...this year, 41,578 Soviet Jews have arrived in Israel; by year's end, the total may reach 150,000. As acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seeks Knesset approval of his new right-wing government this week, he faces the growing dilemma of how to house and employ the largest flood of immigrants to Israel since the early 1950s. Meanwhile, Moscow's decision to lift the gates on Jewish emigration has so infuriated Arab leaders that their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Come One, Come All | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...policy's pacific aims, the selflessness of our aid to national liberation movements and the treachery of the imperialists who surrounded us with military installations. If we stand for peace, then the more missiles, nuclear warheads and nerve gas we stockpile, the safer everyone will be. Our Western opponents employ exactly the same line of argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sakharov: Years In Exile | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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