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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles J. Ogletree, a visiting professor at the Law School and a proponent of Clinical Legal Studies, announces he has accepted the school's offer of tenure. The decision, which makes Ogletree the school's fourth Black faculty member, is viewed as a sign of the school's continued commitment to the radical scholarly movement under newly-appointed Dean Robert C. Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Choices, Changes, and Controversy | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...first night at Harvard, after meeting my roommates and drinking far too much beer, I threw a cardboard box, on which I had written "Derek Bok Sucks," out of my fourth floor Holworthy window. My roommates, who had heard only good things about our president, were shocked...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Essence of Derek Bok | 6/6/1989 | See Source »

Later the President spent hours personally inserting "positive" language into the graduation speech he delivered at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The address was the fourth in a series summing up the conclusions of his Administration's vaunted review of major foreign policy issues. While in his three previous speeches he had voiced stern warnings against being taken in by Soviet peace talk, Bush now praised Gorbachev for "being forthcoming" in negotiations on conventional forces in Europe. He emphasized that "our policy is to seize every -- and I mean every -- opportunity to build a better, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NATO Balancing Act | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...learned more about movie craft from making the Indiana Jones films than I did from E.T. or Jaws," says Spielberg, who won't take on Indy a fourth time. "And now I feel as if I've graduated from the college of Cliff- Hanger U. I ought to have paid tuition." Spielberg's camera style neither misses a trick nor reveals how it's done. See how he cues the change of a Zeppelin's course by the shadow scampering across a cocktail glass; watch a motif of cigarette lighters carry complicity from one character to another. Like a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What's Old Is Gold: A Triumph for Indy | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...also a good day for the women's swimming team, which trounced Princeton, 79-61. The win propelled the undefeated Crimson to its fourth-straight Ivy League title...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Some Memorable Dates | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

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