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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surely you are not surprised that I would look to you for leadership. After all, as the nation's most-quoted expert on constitutional law, who would better understand why protecting flag-burning is so essential to basic civil liberties? And as a heralded liberal (whom many say will have his own seat on the Court someday), who could better weather the political storm and take the unpopular but moral stand...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: An Open Letter to Larry Tribe | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written, than good shop talk, and this is superb -- direct, expert and reeling with the joys of outdoor adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At Play in Fields of Energy | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLLECTIBLES: Bubble Gum Not Included | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Drew G. Faust, a University of Pennsylvania expert on the antebellum South, and William E. Gienapp, a University of Wyoming specialist in nineteenth century party politics, said in interviews yesterday that they had not decided whether to accept the Harvard offers...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Bok Extends Tenure To Two Historians | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

...found attached to the machine that decoded incoming State Department messages; a suspicious-looking wire led through the shielded side of the box that enclosed the equipment to prevent signals from escaping. "When they found it, the NSA technicians thought they had something really exciting," says a senior expert with a chuckle. It turned out that a communications officer had installed the device; it was a buzzer that alerted him whenever cables came in for processing. The rig was thoroughly tested by the NSA and found harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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