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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witnesses said that the Subaru was travelling down Mount Auburn Street at a fast speed and swerved to avoid a car that pulled out from in front of Sage's Jr. Market. The driver lost control of the vehicle while passing through the intersection and collided into a brick wall of the church, knocking down a parking meter...

Author: By Vio Barco, | Title: Driver Injured As Car Swerves Into St. Paul's | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...With the fast approaching Revolutionary War, the Register never fulfilled its original purpose but the document has survived as a treasury of information for historians. Although Bailyn relies heavily on the data from these ledgers, he is careful to ennumerate the limitations of relying on the record-keeping of local port officials...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Colt, | Title: Glossies, Maps and History | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

Assistant Professor of History Alan Brinkleysaid he perceived a certain level of criminalityin the entire affair which he felt was "a verysobering reminder of how routine it has become ingovernment to operate fast and loose with thelaws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Offer Grim Assessment | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

Even if he can think of little in U.S. history without being reminded of the New Deal, Schlesinger is not doctrinaire. Indeed, these essays prove that to be a New Deal liberal for four decades requires not only stamina but lots of irony -- and plenty of fast footwork. He remains enduringly hopeful, not least of all about the revival of liberalism, which, according to his schedule, is due to cycle back in favor around 1990. But he also finds it part of his nature to question everything, including his hopes. In his best essay, Schlesinger writes of the "precariousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ad Lib the Cycles of American History | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...contributed to the program. In addition, a number of countries in both the East and the West have been reluctant to participate, either because they did not think they had a serious AIDS problem or possibly out of a misplaced sense of national pride. But that reluctance is fast disappearing. At a WHO conference this month in the Congo, a number of African governments, alarmed at the enormity of the crisis, agreed for the first time to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Enter the Aids Pandemic | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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