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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More important, the separation of faculty meals and student meals perpetuates a two-class society at Harvard. The elite are fed with table cloths, liquor, and decorum. The rest of us are fed with the trappings and charm of an automotive assembly line...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Reflections on the SCR | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Fed up with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Sweet Smell of Success | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Anorexics' cognitive functioning is affected. They can no longer tell what they really look like. There are 80 pound women in the hospital who are angry when they are force-fed; they think people are forcing them to get fat," says Honnet...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Coping With Eating Problems at Harvard | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

...Boston's North End was an unlikely headquarters for a multimillion-dollar business. No grand entrance, no smiling receptionist. But it was in that nondescript room that leaders of the Angiulo crime family, the city's predominant underworld dynasty, met regularly to plan the fortunes of an evil empire fed by murder, gambling and loan sharking. Often their plotting turned to what they considered a vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise,' " Family Boss Gennaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Thermonuclear Statute | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...left set the right to smoldering. Defiant, depthless and charismatic, bristling with an animal vitality, Wallace knew the political uses of resentment, of powerlessness. He began by playing upon the psychology of race in the South, then, going national, assembled a constituency of the aggrieved, of Americans fed up with antiwar protest and long hair and Big Government interference and (paradoxically) the disintegration of authority. The whole American edifice seemed to be coming down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of the Firebrand | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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