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Education lobbyists have cried foul over Reagan's proposal, and many charge him with disregarding higher education. The proposed budget would include a cut of $326 million in funding for need-based programs, which, according to education groups, would cut off nearly 800,000 of the 12 million college and graduate students who receive...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Education and Big Politics | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...tough game, like shooting foul shots. You miss more than you make," says Wilt Chamberlain, 47, who after eleven years of retirement from pro basketball is putting on a full-court press for stardom in Conan: King of Thieves, due out this summer. In the sequel to 1982's barbaric hit, the 7-ft. 1-in. former N.B.A. champion dunks some nasty villains as the warrior Bombaata, who is on a perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Children's kickball games spill over like laughter in the streets. By East European standards, goods are bountiful, and by Western standards, they are inexpensive. The air is foul, the water sparkling, the meals cheap, the service considerate. Along with the shiny gold pins that are always the most valued currency at the Olympics, people have been exchanging stories of local kindnesses. "When our flight connected in Zagreb," says Sandra Knapp of Indianapolis, "eight of us with the U.S.O.C. went to change money, and the banker made us all come to his office for cheese and brandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sweet Scene in Sarajevo | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Harvard's 40 foul shots 32 of them in the second half were evidence of the game's sluggishness. Down by 12 at halftime, the Bruins were forced to play an overly aggressive style of ball...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Easy: Cagers Thump the, Bruins, 85-66 | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

...said to them at half to just box out and get possession of the ball." McLaughlin said. "If we had the ball, we knew that they were going to foul...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Easy: Cagers Thump the, Bruins, 85-66 | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

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