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Margaret M. Cimino '87 is semi-conscious--able to respond to requests to lift a finger--said spokesman Kelly Anthony of Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital...

Author: By Heather M. Townsend, | Title: Freshman Injured at Yale Still in Critical Condition | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...Capitol Hill last week, the ballooning federal deficit was being treated more as a conversation piece than an urgent problem. Despite a few genuine efforts to do what everyone knew had to be done-raise revenues and reduce spending-the week ended with a blizzard of babbling and fruitless finger-pointing between Congress and the White House that brought the Government once again to the brink of a breakdown. "I am not rinding any leadership at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue," said Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma, the chairman of the House Budget Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cowering Before the Deficit | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...interpreting Stratten's misfortunes as an inevitable result of capitalist exploitation, would focus on the Disneyland nature of Hefner's Playboy empire (as Fosse does) and on the insatiable appetite of a capitalist society for junk food, junk movies--in short, junk values. It would also point an accusing finger at the American propensity for materializing and objectifying life; through, for example, the starmaking machinery in New York and Los Angeles, which manufactures individuals into cardboard cutouts and then expresses shock when they age, bleed...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Exploiting the Exploiters | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...only one not getting a finger pointed at him during Yale's worst season ever is the 53-year-old coach, who has compiled a 119-52-3 record in 18 years at the Eli helm...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Learning to lose | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan has entered that hallowed ground. Some would suggest he got there through his own lack of understanding in Lebanon and his itchy trigger finger in Grenada. Right or wrong, he is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Test of True Leadership | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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