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Not surprisingly, the Coop's success story has involved a radical transformation of its goals and organization. The communal service of the original student-run cooperative has gone the way of valet service and wholesome meals in Harvard dining halls, to be replaced with the scientific business management that considers...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Stepping Into the Past | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

But too often, weak writing rules. Impossibilities abound, such as a scene where a wind-blown hat lures a girl to her doom, but somehow remains stationary overnight to provide a telltale clue. Blood Beach also tries to spoof know-it-all scientists and tight-fisted politicians, but is too...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

South Africa is hardly known for its enlightened human rights policies, but it does like to pride itself on having a free press. In fact, journalists in that country live in the shadow of an iron-fisted state security apparatus that is armed with more than 100 separate laws governing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: News Lockout | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Just a day earlier, the thoroughbred had stumbled. After 24 years as the Senator from New York, Republican Jacob Javits, 76, lost his party's nomination for a fifth term, to an obscure suburban official from Long Island. Javits' reputation had once made him seem as durable as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: A Thoroughbred Stumbles | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Just as the first wave of student protests subsided, the government cracked down with a series of iron-fisted edicts and actions: a ban against all political activity, the closing of all university campuses and, finally, the summary arrest of hundreds of prominent politicians, busi nessmen and student leaders. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Season of Spleen | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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