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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Definitely," the former trapper insists. "Alaska's the best. It's hard to explain. It's kind of...a mood...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Adjusting to College in the Lower 48 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...This explains Harvard's use of worktime meetings in its anti-union campaigns, but it doesn't explain the administration's spreading of disinformation about the union in its brochures. Why should a University whose president defends its right to disseminate "facts and arguments on both sides of the issue" spread untruths and confusion about HUCTW...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Has Bok Passed the QRR? | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...simply trying to explain astrology rather than criticizing it, however, the media has begun to unwittingly spread the President's foolishness rather than combat it. This frightens me far more than the revelation itself, for it is as if noone cares that the leader of the country believed this ridiculous stuff. Nobody asks what this says about the kinds of criteria Reagan is willing to use in his everyday--or even world shaking--decisions. If we begin by accepting astrology as an innocuous eccentricity, we will be more likely to accept a government run on ignorance, and give "equal time...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Reagan's Starry-Eyed Idealism | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...government has refused to comment on McNamara's case or explain why she was arrested. Free once again, McNamara will stay in Peru until her name is cleared. "It is outrageous that one can be a completely innocent tourist and be thrown into a dangerous situation like this," she said. "But I have many wonderful memories of Peru. Nothing can change that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Behind Bars with the Senderistas | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...didn't have to explain the joke...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: The Woes of the O's | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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