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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a review of the minority recruitment activities for 1987-'88, the reason for a centralized review of minority applications is that "it has been established that minorities sometimes submit ill-prepared applications which hinder their admission...Fine tuning of their application was suggested when appropriate...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Is the Ph.D. Pool Really the Problem? | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...Popes may seem unique. Not many parents are '60s radicals like Artie (Judd Hirsch) and his wife Annie (Christine Lahti), on the lam since they bombed a university lab in the dear dread days of the Viet Nam War resistance. Even fewer have stayed together and raised two fine sons: Danny (River Phoenix), now 17, and Harry (Jonas Abry), 10. At heart, though, the Popes share the passionate conservatism of any family: their desperate fugitive adventure has become a habit worth preserving at all costs. Their secret, their constant risk of exposure, keeps them close. And Danny, in the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All in The Post-'60s Family RUNNING ON EMPTY | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...should emphasize that it's a fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...Seattle Mayor Charles Royer conceded last year, "It became clear that while we have some people who are hurting, there are some who are hurting us." The city passed an ordinance last fall making "aggressive begging" punishable by as much as 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Minneapolis lawmakers followed suit in February, ruling that no person shall "grab, follow, or engage in conduct which reasonably tends to arouse alarm or anger in others." Portland has also passed a "pedestrian-interference" law. Some officials admit that the ordinances are hard to enforce but are useful as a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Begging: To Give or Not to Give | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

BROADWAY BOUND. Joan Rivers acts? Yes, and she does just fine as the mother in Neil Simon's subtle, thoughtful and funny look at his youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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